"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Dean, Adam Wesley (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chapel Hill Univ. of North Carolina Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:	Civil War America
Schlagworte:	Republican Party > USA aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )xHistoryy19th century aAntislavery movementszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aAgriculturexPolitical aspectszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aSlaveryxPolitical aspectszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aParksxPolitical aspectszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aLand usexPolitical aspectszUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century aSlaveryzUnited StatesxExtension to the territories aSlaveryxPolitical aspectszSouthern StatesxHistoryy19th century aSlaveryxPolitical aspectszWest (U.S.)xHistoryy19th century aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmenty1849-1877 Landwirtschaft Landnutzung Nationalpark Kleinbauer USA
Zusammenfassung:	"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
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	X, 230 S.
ISBN:	9781469619910