{"product_id":"grassroots-leviathan-9781421439327","title":"Grassroots Leviathan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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. 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. 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 built a movement of semipublic agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that fundamentally recast Americans' relationship to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAriel Ron's engagingly written \u003ci\u003eGrassroots Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Center for Civil War Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recovering the stakes of antebellum agricultural society, \u003ci\u003eGrassroots Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e upends conventional wisdom about urban-rural divides in U.S. society and revives a remarkable political economic formation in which popular, democratic developmentalism successfully won out over reactionary, vested interests.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFront matter\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eIn Media Res\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Rise of the Agricultural Reform Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform\u003cbr\u003e2. Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Making of Northern Economic Nationalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast\u003cbr\u003e4. Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Toward a National Agricultural Policy Agenda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Mapes's Superphosphates and the Crisis of Agricultural Expertise\u003cbr\u003e6. From \"Private Enterprise\" to \"Governmental Action\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Agricultural Reform Vs. the Slaveocracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Movement into Lobby\u003cbr\u003e8. The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408140411223,"sku":"9781421439327","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421439327.jpg?v=1730501733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grassroots-leviathan-9781421439327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}