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Grassroots leviathan : agricultural reform and the rural North in the slaveholding republic /

"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 histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ron, Ariel, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Colección:Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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