An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

by Adam Wesley Dean

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469619911
• ISBN13: 9781469619910
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"