The Changing American Countryside

List of Illustrations

Foreword, Clifton Wharton, Jr.

Acknowledgments

Part 1—An Introduction

1. The Forgotten Hinterlands, Emery N. Castle

Part 2—Reading the Land: Literature and the Countryside

2. Land and Word: American Pastoral, William Howarth

Part 3—Change in Countryside

3. The Urban Invasion of Rural America: The Emergence of the Galactic City, Peirce Lewis

4. “Rural” and “Farm” No Longer Mean the Same, John Fraser Hart

5. Population Change in Nonmetropolitan America, Glenn V. Fuguitt

Part 4—Money, Jobs, and Space

6. The Location of Economic Activity in Rural and Nonmetropolitan United States, Edwin S. Mills

7. The Use and Management of Rural Space, Pierre Crosson

8. Extractive Industries and Rural-Urban Economic Interdependence, Bruce A. Weber

9. Finding Rural Success: The New Rural Economic Landscape and Its Implications, Mark Drabenstott and Tim R. Smith

10. Understanding Trends in Rural Labor Markets, Gene F. Summers, Francine Horton, and Christina Gringeri

Part —Distress and Poverty

11. Persistent Rural Poverty, Gene F. Summers

12. The Determinants of Rural and Urban Poverty, Thomas A. Hirschl and David L. Brown

13. Why Rural Poverty is Growing Worse: Similar Causes in Diverse Settings, Janet M. Fitchen

Part 6—Regional and Ethnic Diversity

14. Conflict and Change on the Landscapes of the Arid American West, Paul F. Starrs

15. Rural Latinos: Evolving Conditions and Issues, Refugio I. Rochin

16. American Indian Economic Development, C. Matthew Snipp

17. The Rural South: A Historical View, Charles S. Aiken

18. African-Americans in the Rural South: The Persistence of Racism and Poverty, Bruce B. Williams and Bonnie Thornton Dill

19. The Rural People of the Midwest, Sonya Salamon

Part 7—Group Decision Making in the Countryside: The Social and Institutional Context

20. Social Organization in the Countryside, Daryl Hobbs

21. Structures and Patterns of Rural Governance, Ronald J. Oakerson

22. Rural Education and Training: Myths and Misconceptions Dispelled, Ruy A. Teixeira

23. Linking Education and Community Development: Rural and Inner City Strategies, Joan Fitzgerald

24. Rural Education: Decentering the Consolidation Debate, David R. Reynolds

25. Living with the Minimum: Rural Public Policy, William P. Browne and Louis E. Swanson

Part 8—Conclusion

26. An Overview, Emery N. Castle

References Cited

About the Contributors

Index