Table of Contents

Front matter
Introduction
In Media Res
Part I: Rise of the Agricultural Reform Movement
1. The Limits of Patrician Agricultural Reform
2. Agricultural Reform as a State-Building Social Movement
Part II: The Making of Northern Economic Nationalism
3. Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast
4. Henry C. Carey and the Republican Developmental Synthesis
Part III: Toward a National Agricultural Policy Agenda
5. Mapes's Superphosphates and the Crisis of Agricultural Expertise
6. From "Private Enterprise" to "Governmental Action"
Part IV: Agricultural Reform Vs. the Slaveocracy
7. Movement into Lobby
8. The Sectionalization of National Agricultural Policy
Epilogue

Promotional Information

How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.

About the Author

Ariel Ron is the Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era at Southern Methodist University.

Reviews

Ariel Ron's engagingly written Grassroots Leviathan is an agricultural, political, economic, and intellectual history that is also informed by soil science, chemistry, education, and legal studies.
—The Center for Civil War Research

In recovering the stakes of antebellum agricultural society, Grassroots Leviathan upends conventional wisdom about urban-rural divides in U.S. society and revives a remarkable political economic formation in which popular, democratic developmentalism successfully won out over reactionary, vested interests.
—Boston Review