{"product_id":"grassroots-leviathan-ariel-ron-9781421446721","title":"Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sweeping look at rural society from the American Revolution to the Civil War, Ariel Ron argues that agricultural history is central to understanding the nation's formative period. Upending the myth that the Civil War pitted an industrial North against an agrarian South, \u003ci\u003eGrassroots Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rise of a powerful agricultural reform movement spurred by northern farmers. Ron shows that farming dominated the lives of most Americans through almost the entire nineteenth century and traces how middle-class farmers in the \"Greater Northeast\" built a movement of semipublic agricultural societies, fairs, and periodicals that fundamentally recast Americans' relationship to market forces and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ariel Ron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421446723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421446721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Ariel Ron","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44132732076287,"sku":"9781421446721","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ede7dda3-79ce-4d8b-99b6-2d746d710bee.jpg?v=1687481968","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grassroots-leviathan-ariel-ron-9781421446721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}