"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons explores how they assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential sustenance for overseas troops and food rations for a domestic population while accepting a larger stake in global affairs, fueling the nation's growing power and aiding its international ascent"-- Provided by publisher.
"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons explores how they assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential sustenance for overseas troops and food rations for a domestic population while accepting a larger stake in global affairs, fueling the nation's growing power and aiding its international ascent"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Abbreviations Introduction: Comrades in the Heartland 1. After the Golden Harvest: World War I and the Postwar Collapse 2. A Rainbow over the Pacific: Lend-Lease and a Rebirth of Agricultural Exchange 3. Necessary Men: Farm Labor in Wartime 4. Global Heartland: Reimagining the Midwest in Wartime 5. Your Feedlot Touches the World: Feeding the Peace Epilogue. Starving the Red Menace: Anticommunist Food Relief Acknowledgments Notes Index
Contents Abbreviations Introduction: Comrades in the Heartland 1. After the Golden Harvest: World War I and the Postwar Collapse 2. A Rainbow over the Pacific: Lend-Lease and a Rebirth of Agricultural Exchange 3. Necessary Men: Farm Labor in Wartime 4. Global Heartland: Reimagining the Midwest in Wartime 5. Your Feedlot Touches the World: Feeding the Peace Epilogue. Starving the Red Menace: Anticommunist Food Relief Acknowledgments Notes Index
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