Agrarian Republic (eBook)

Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

Adam Wesley Dean (Autor)

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2015
240 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1992-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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, 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.Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "e;civilizing"e; mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.

Autor

Adam Wesley Dean is assistant professor of history at Lynchburg College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 19th Century Concepts of Civilization • 19th Century Farming • 19th Century Ideas about Citizenship • 19th Century Views of Nature • 19th Century Views on Land Use • Agrarianism • Allotment • Anti-Slavery Politics • California During the Civil War • Cornelius Cole • Creation of Yosemite • Debate about the Extension of Slavery • establishment of the Republican Party • Establishment of Yellowstone National Park • Expansion of Slavery into the West • Frederick Law Olmsted • George W. Julian • Homestead Law • James Mason Hutchings • Jeffersonian Agrarianism • Land Grand Colleges • National Park Idea • Pre-Emption Law • Public Land Law • Reconstruction Policy • Samuel C. Pomeroy • The Free Soil Party • The Homestead Act • The Southern Homestead Act • The United States Department of Agriculture • transcontinental railroads • William Henry Seward—The “Higher Law” Speech • William Henry Seward—The “Higher Law” Speech • Yosemite Early History
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1992-X / 146961992X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1992-7 / 9781469619927