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Book SynopsisAfter the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. Shawn Kantor asserts that this conflict was centered on anticipated benefits from fencing livestock rather than on class, cultural or ideological differences.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: The Dynamics of Institutional Change: An Analytical Framework 2: The Economic Benefits of Livestock Enclosure 3: Translating Economic Interest into Action: Distributional Conflicts and the Dynamics of Institutional Change 4: Resolving the Distributional Conflicts 5: The Politics of Property Rights 6: Uncovering the Ideology of Property Rights Reform in the Postbellum South 7: Property Rights and Populists: The Political Consequences of Livestock Enclosure Epilogue: A Note on Institutional Change, Efficiency, and Democracy App. A: Procedure Used to Calculate Expected Savings from the Stock Law App. B: Data Appendix to Carroll and Jackson County Election Regressions Notes References Index
