Book

Grassroots Leviathan

Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic

Ariel Ron

2021

Johns Hopkins University Press

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Origin Story

Slavery, Technology and the Social Origins of the US Agricultural State

Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.

by Ariel Ron via Broadstreet on September 3, 2021
Book Review

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.

by Nic Johnson, Chris Hong, Robert Manduca via Boston Review on May 18, 2021

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