Adam Wesley Dean: 1 book
An Agrarian Republic
Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led...
