Author:
Ron, Ariel, 1978- author.
ImprintBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- In Medias Res -- Part I. Rise of the Agricultural Reform Movement -- The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform -- Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement -- Part II. The Making of Northern Economic Nationalism -- Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast -- Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis -- Part III. Toward a National Agricultural Policy Agenda -- A Crisis of Agricultural Expertise -- From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action" -- Part IV. Agricultural Reform versus the Slaveocracy -- Movement into Lobby -- The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.
Note:"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.
