MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2014026608
003 DLC
005 20151203080700.0
008 150126s2015 ncu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014026608
020 $a9781469619910 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781469619927 (ebook)
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050 00 $aE415.7$b.D42 2015
082 00 $a320.97309/034$223
100 1 $aDean, Adam Wesley.
245 13 $aAn agrarian republic :$bfarming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era /$cAdam Wesley Dean.
264 1 $aChapel Hill :$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$c2015.
300 $ax, 230 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCivil War America
520 2 $a"The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam W. 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, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
505 0 $aA question of slavery in the West -- Free soil and the rise of the Republican Party -- Land-development politics and the American Civil War -- The creation of Yosemite and Yellowstone -- Seeking peace in the South and West -- Conclusion: Retrenchment in the South, allotment in the West.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1849-1877.
610 20 $aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAgriculture$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aParks$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLand use$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xExtension to the territories.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century.