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An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era /

"The familiar story of the Civil War tells of an agrarian South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam W. Dean argues that the political ideology of the triumphant Republican Party was fundamentally agrarian. Believing small farms owned by families for generations led to...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dean, Adam Wesley
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Collection:Civil War America (Series)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A question of slavery in the West
  • Free soil and the rise of the Republican Party
  • Land-development politics and the American Civil War
  • The creation of Yosemite and Yellowstone
  • Seeking peace in the South and West
  • Conclusion: Retrenchment in the South, allotment in the West.