The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy

by John Opie

Book Overview

In The Law of the Land John Opie argues that American agriculture has been and still is controlled by erroneous and harmful historical myths. Contrary to public opinion and textbook gospel, public land policy has often worked against the independent family farmer. The public land survey and sales system, going back to 1785 and covering the western two-thirds of the United States, was supposed to be the most equitable means of making land available...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803235534
• ISBN13: 9780803235533
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 231 Pages