Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic Ron Ariel
Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic Ron Ariel How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast…
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Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic Ron Ariel
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 Research's 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 nation's formative period. 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 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.