Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholdin

Description: Grassroots Leviathan by Ariel Ron 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 Researchs 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 nations 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ariel Ron is the Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era at Southern Methodist University. Table of Contents Front matterIntroductionIn Media ResPart I: Rise of the Agricultural Reform Movement1. The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform2. Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social MovementPart II: The Making of Northern Economic Nationalism3. Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast4. Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental SynthesisPart III: Toward a National Agricultural Policy Agenda5. Mapess Superphosphates and the Crisis of Agricultural Expertise6. From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action"Part IV: Agricultural Reform Vs. the Slaveocracy7. Movement into Lobby8. The Sectionalization of National Agricultural PolicyEpilogue Review Ariel Rons engagingly written Grassroots Leviathan is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies.—The Center for Civil War ResearchIn recovering the stakes of antebellum agricultural society, Grassroots Leviathan upends conventional wisdom about urban-rural divides in U.S. society and revives a remarkable political economic formation in which popular, democratic developmentalism successfully won out over reactionary, vested interests.—Boston Review Promotional How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans relationships to market forces and the state. Long Description 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 Researchs 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History Society In 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 nations 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. Review Text Ariel Rons engagingly written Grassroots Leviathan is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies. * The Center for Civil War Research * In recovering the stakes of antebellum agricultural society, Grassroots Leviathan upends conventional wisdom about urban-rural divides in U.S. society and revives a remarkable political economic formation in which popular, democratic developmentalism successfully won out over reactionary, vested interests. * Boston Review * Review Quote "Ariel Rons engagingly written Grassroots Leviathan is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies." Promotional "Headline" How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans relationships to market forces and the state. Details ISBN1421446723 Author Ariel Ron Pages 324 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Year 2023 ISBN-10 1421446723 ISBN-13 9781421446721 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2023-01-31 UK Release Date 2023-01-31 Subtitle Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic NZ Release Date 2023-01-31 US Release Date 2023-01-31 Series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia Alternative 9781421439327 DEWEY 338.10974/09034 Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white; 1 Graphs; 3 Maps; 17 Illustrations, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-01-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139683371;

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