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

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The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Commonly Used Acronyms; 1 Introduction; The Agro-Industrial Complex; Transcending State-Market Dichotomies; Overview of the Chapters; 2 The Agro-Industrial Roots of the us Capitalist Transition through State Capacity Building: 1830-1870; US Land Policy in the North; Early Farmer Resistance to Market Expansion; Land, Debt and Speculation; Canal and Railroad Policy; Early State Involvement in Agriculture.

Agro-Industrial DevelopmentConclusion; 3 The End of Slavery and Southern Agricultural Class Structure; Slavery, the Civil War and the Transition; The Civil War and State Institutional Expansion; Postbellum Southern Agriculture; Uneven Development across the South; Tenancy and the Class Politics of Reconstruction; Conclusion; 4 Agrarian Populism: The Rise and Fall of Populism; Farmers and Farming in the Late 19th Century USA; Late 19th Century Agrarian Political Economy; The Rise of Populism; Populist Politics; Populist Fractures; The Decline of Populism; The American Farm Bureau Federation.

Conclusion5 State Institutional Capacity Building of the USDA-Research Complex; Institutional Response to Agrarian Movements; The Agro-Industrial Project in Research; State Capacity Building in Trade and Banking; Agro-Industrialization through Farmer Education; State Responses to the Agricultural Crisis of the 1920s; Conclusion; 6 The New Deal and Agricultural State Institutional Capacity Building; The Politics of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; Southern Tenants and the AAA; Theories of the New Deal Era State; Class Influences on Institutional Development.

The Specific Case of California AgricultureThe Consistency of Trade Promotion; Agriculture, the New Deal, and World War II; Conclusion; 7 Sowing the Seeds of Globalization: Post-War Food Aid, Trade and the Agricultural Roots of US Hegemony; Food Aid as Globalization's Groundwork; Food Aid as Agro-Industrial Development Project; The Institutional Dimensions of Internationalization; The Crisis of the 1970s; Harvesting Free Trade; The Food Regimes Approach; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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