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An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era / Adam Wesley Dean ; cover illustration Winslow Homer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Adam Wesley, author.
- Series:
- Civil War America (Series)
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History--19th century.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Agriculture and politics--United States--History--19th century.
- Agriculture and politics.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 A Question of Slavery in the West""; ""2 Free Soil and the Rise of the Republican Party""; ""3 Land-Development Politics and the American Civil War""; ""4 The Creation of Yosemite and Yellowstone""; ""5 Seeking Peace in the South and West""; ""CONCLUSION: Retrenchment in the South, Allotment in the West""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890846419
- 9781469623139
- 1469623137
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