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Author Ron, Ariel, 1978- author.

Title Grassroots leviathan : agricultural reform and the rural North in the slaveholding republic / Ariel Ron
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Contents 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
Summary "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 interpretation is that he posits agrarian reform in the North as an antithesis to the slaveholding South rather than industrialization as has been traditionally juxtaposed with the South's plantation economy"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agriculture and state -- New England -- History -- 19th century
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- New England -- History -- 19th century
Agriculture and state
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
New England
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1421439336
9781421439334