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Author:

Summerhill, Thomas, 1962-

Title:

Harvest of dissent : agrarianism in nineteenth-century New York / Thomas Summerhill.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xi, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Farmers--New York (State)--History--History--19th century.
Agriculture--History--New York (State)--History--19th century.
Land reform--History--New York (State)--History--19th century.
New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865
New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950
New York (State)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN:

9780252029769 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252029763 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56798807

LCCN:

2004023663

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)