Grassroots leviathan : agricultural reform and the rural North in the slaveholding republic / Ariel Ron.
Author Ron traces how middle-class farmers in the "Greater Northeast" built a movement of semi-public agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that, together, fundamentally recast the relationship of rural people to market forces and governing structures. A novelty of his historical...
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- In Medias Res
- PART I RISE OF THE AGRICULTURAL REFORM MOVEMENT
- 1 The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform
- 2 Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement
- PART II THE MAKING OF NORTHERN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
- 3 Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast
- 4 Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis
- PART III TOWARD A NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGENDA
- 5 A Crisis of Agricultural Expertise.
- 6 From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action"
- PART IV A GRICULTURAL REFORM VERSUS THE SLAVEOCRACY
- 7 Movement into Lobby
- 8 The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Essay on Sources
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
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- Q
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