Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-272) and index.
Contents
Republican fathers : capital takes to the woods, 1790-1825 -- Democratic children : farmers and the jacksonians, 1825-1840 -- The anti-renters : agrarians and the politics of faction -- New crops, new challenges : farm life in the 1850s -- Agrarianism outflanked : farmers, railroads, and politics, 1848-1865 -- The maturation of the market economy : dairy and hops culture, 1870-1900 -- Tenant unrest and elite cooperation : responses to the new economy -- The grange movement, 1874-1900.