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Author Dean, Adam Wesley.

Title An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era / Adam Wesley Dean.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Civil War America
Summary "The familiar story of the Civil War tells of an agrarian South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam W. Dean argues that the political ideology of the triumphant Republican Party was fundamentally agrarian. Believing small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans saw slavery as a foil to the northern agricultural ideal. In their view, plantation agriculture destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how, over time, these ideas shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid a foundation for the development of conservation ideas that supported the creation of the earliest national parks"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A 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.
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Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 19th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Republican Party USA.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877.
United States.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1849-1877
Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements.
Agriculture and politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture and politics.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects.
Parks -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Parks -- Political aspects.
Parks.
Land use -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Land use -- Political aspects.
Land use.
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories.
Slavery.
Slavery -- Extension to the territories.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dean, Adam Wesley. Agrarian republic 9781469619910 (DLC) 2014026608 (OCoLC)893452551
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