Grassroots Leviathan : Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic Hardback
by Ariel (Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University) Ron
Part of the Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia series
Hardback
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How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state. Recipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History SocietyIn this sweeping look at rural society from the American Revolution to the Civil War, Ariel Ron argues that agricultural history is central to understanding the nation's formative period.
Upending the myth that the Civil War pitted an industrial North against an agrarian South, Grassroots Leviathan traces the rise of a powerful agricultural reform movement spurred by northern farmers.
Ron shows that farming dominated the lives of most Americans through almost the entire nineteenth century and traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semipublic agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that fundamentally recast Americans' relationship to market forces and the state.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:324 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; 1 Graphs; 3 Maps; 17 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781421439327
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:324 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; 1 Graphs; 3 Maps; 17 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781421439327
