Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community

by Mark A. Lause

The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads. Mark A. Lause's Young America argues that it was these working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset--land--that led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252072308
• ISBN13: 9780252072307
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"