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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798663903321

Autore

Bauerly Brad

Titolo

The agrarian seeds of empire : the political economy of agriculture in US state building / / by Brad Bauerly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]

ISBN

90-04-31414-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences ; ; 100

Disciplina

338.1873

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - United States - History

Social movements - United States - History

Land reform - United States - History

Agricultural industries - United States - History

United States Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Agro-Industrial Roots of the US Capitalist Transition through State Capacity Building: 1830–1870 -- The End of Slavery and Southern Agricultural Class Structure -- Agrarian Populism: The Rise and Fall of Populism -- State Institutional Capacity Building of the USDA-Research Complex -- The New Deal and Agricultural State Institutional Capacity Building -- Sowing the Seeds of Globalization: Post-War Food Aid, Trade and the Agricultural Roots of US Hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Agrarian Seeds of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building between 1840- 1980. Out of the mix of the developing new Nation and the expanding capitalist system emerged strong farmer’s movements that produced state building processes central to American political development. It will show how the forces of state building and social movements converged to produce agro-industrialization. This agro-industrial developmental project was instrumental in both the development of the industrial food system and US Empire as the institutional capacities were later used to impose the same project



outside of the US. These findings link together and augment existing approaches to capitalist development, International Relations, and theories of the state and the food system.