Food, Politics, and Agricultural Development: Case Studies in the Public Policy of Rural Modernization

Preface -- The Politics of Agricultural Modernization -- The United States: A Unique Development Model -- Agricultural Modernization in England, France, and Denmark -- The State and Collective Farming in the Soviet Union and China -- The Political Economy of Taiwanese Agricultural Development -- Politics and Agrarian Change in South Korea: Rural Modernization by "Induced" Mobilization -- Food in Iran: The Politics of Insufficiency -- The Political Economy of Farm Mechanization Policy: Tractors in Pakistan -- The Commercialization of Agriculture and the Rise of Rural Political Protest in Black Africa -- The Politics of Food Scarcities in Developing Countries