Annotated listing of new books.

The article discusses about the book "Mixed harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930," by Hal S. Barron. This book reconstructs the experiences and perspectives of those who stayed in the rural North during the second great transformation of the U.S. countryside-a transformation characterized by the centralization of the economy, the expansion of state power and professional expertise, and the rise of an urban consumer culture. Considers an area stretching from New England to the northern Great Plains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Analyzes the politics of localism and the battles that were fought over the issue of road administration; localism and rural opposition to school reform and consolidation.