Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic

by Ariel Ron

Book Overview

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 Society

In this sweeping look at rural society from the American Revolution to the Civil War, Ariel Ron argues that agricultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421446723
• ISBN13: 9781421446721
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"