Grassroots Leviathan

Ariel Ron is the Glenn M. Linden Assistant Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era at Southern Methodist University.

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction In Medias Res Part I. Rise of the Agricultural Reform Movement 1. The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform 2. Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement Part II. The Making of Northern Economic Nationalism 3.Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast 4. Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis Part III. Toward a National Agricultural Policy Agenda 5.A Crisis of Agricultural Expertise 6. From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action" Part IV. Agricultural Reform versus the Slaveocracy 7. Movement into Lobby 8.The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index

Ariel Ron's engagingly written Grassroots Leviathan is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies. * The Center for Civil War Research * In recovering the stakes of antebellum agricultural society, Grassroots Leviathan upends conventional wisdom about urban-rural divides in U.S. society and revives a remarkable political economic formation in which popular, democratic developmentalism successfully won out over reactionary, vested interests. * Boston Review *