The agrarian seeds of empire : the political economy of agriculture in US state building / by Brad Bauerly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauerly, Brad, author.

Contributor:

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 100.

Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural industries.

History.

Land reform.

Social movements.

Agriculture and state.

United States--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

International economic relations.

Agriculture and state--United States--History.

Social movements--United States--History.

Land reform--United States--History.

Agricultural industries--United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, [2018]

Summary:

The Agrarian Sees of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building between 1840 and 1980. Out of the mix of the developing new nation and the expanding capitalist system emerged strong farmers' movements that produced state building processes central to American political development. Bauerly shows how the forces of state building and social movements converged to produce agro-industrialization. This agro-industrial development project was instrumental in both the development of the industrial food system and US empire as the institutional capacities were later used to impose the same project outside of the United States. These findings link together and augment existing approaches to capitalist development, international relations, and theories of the state and the food system. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The agro-industrial roots of the US capitalist transition through state capacity building : 1830-1870

The end of slavery and southern agricultural class structure

Agrarian populism: the rise and fall of populism

State institutional capacity building of the USDA-research complex

The new deal and agricultural state institutional capacity building

Sowing the seeds of globalization: post-war food aid, trade and the agricultural roots of US hegemony

Conclusion

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography.

Notes:

First published in 2016 by Brill Academic Publishers, The Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-302) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781608468430

1608468437

OCLC:

1033566538