An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era /
Adam Wesley Dean.
Bok Engelsk 2015 Adam Wesley. Dean
| Omfang | x, 230 pages ;
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| Opplysninger | Formerly CIP.. - A question of slavery in the West -- Free soil and the rise of the Republican Party -- Land-development politics and the American Civil War -- The creation of Yosemite and Yellowstone -- Seeking peace in the South and West -- Conclusion: Retrenchment in the South, allotment in the West.. - "The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam W. Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks"--Provided by publisher.
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| ISBN | 9781469619910 (pbk.) : : £25.95
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| ISBN(galt) | 9781469619927 (ebook)
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