Tied to Their Country
The Farm Crisis, Agrarian Activism, and the Rise of Anti-Federalism
$178.16
- Hardcover
322 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2026
Summary
Historically, rural spaces in the United States have encompassed a wide array of political cultures and affiliations, but in the late twentieth century, rural America became a breeding ground for anti-government militancy. Disparate groups coalesced around an ideology grounded in virulent rural anti-federalism. Although farmers today are often beneficiaries of federal programs and payments, anti-federal sentiments run rampant across rural America. The reason, Rebecca Shimoni Stoil argues, lie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496243652 |
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| ISBN-10: | 149624365X |
| Author: | Rebecca Shimoni Stoil |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 322 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“The Farm Crisis is a vastly understudied subject, and yet it had enormous implications for the political, economic, and social history of the United States. Its reverberations are still being felt throughout the agriculture heartland. Tied to Their Country does an exceptional job of examining the politics of the era and helping the reader understand how and why the farmers of the 1980s found themselves in such a dire situation. It explores not only the political but the cultural problem in which farmers found themselves as they moved from being the majority to a tiny minority.“—Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author of When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
“There is a need to understand the political realities of rural America, and a need to grapple more intentionally with the devastating effects of the Farm Crisis. Tied to Their Country offers several concrete contributions to the fields of agricultural, rural, and political history, shifting historical focus back to the intersection of rural identity with rural political economy.“—Cory Haala, author of When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978–1992
About The Author
Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Rebecca Shimoni Stoil is an assistant professor of history at Clemson University and a former journalist.
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