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The agrarian seeds of empire : the political economy of agriculture in US state building / by Brad Bauerly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauerly, Brad.
- Series:
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences 100.
- Studies in critical social sciences ; 100
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture and state--United States--History.
- Agriculture and state.
- Social movements--United States--History.
- Social movements.
- Land reform--United States--History.
- Land reform.
- Agricultural industries--United States--History.
- Agricultural industries.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, [2017]
- Summary:
- The Agrarian Seeds of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building between 1840- 1980. Out of the mix of the developing new Nation and the expanding capitalist system emerged strong farmer’s movements that produced state building processes central to American political development. It will show how the forces of state building and social movements converged to produce agro-industrialization. This agro-industrial developmental 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 US. These findings link together and augment existing approaches to capitalist development, International Relations, and theories of the state and the food system.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 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
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-302) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-31414-8
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004314146 DOI
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