Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University), “Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic” (Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions)

Looking at farmers as serious independent agents in the making, unmaking, and remaking of the American republic, Grassroots Leviathan offers an original take on the causes of the Civil War, the rise of federal power, and American economic ascent during the nineteenth century.

 

Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History Society, Winner of the Wiley-Silver Book Prize by the Center for Civil War Research.

 

Ariel Ron is Glenn M. Linden Assistant Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era at Southern Methodist University.

 

Sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions.

 

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