An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era
(Part of the Civil War America Series and Civil War America Series)
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The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley 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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469619911
ISBN13:9781469619910
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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