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

• Author: Bauerly, Brad.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences 100.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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.