Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780-1825 -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (1782) -- Alexander Hamilton, from Report on the Subject of Manufactures (1791) -- The National Gazette, from "An Old Prophecy" (1792) -- and a letter to the editor (1792) -- John Taylor of Caroline, from Arator (1813) -- James Madison, from "An Address Delivered before the Albemarle, Va., Agricultural Society" (1818) -- William Cobbett, from Journal of a Year's Residence in America (1819) -- 2. A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825-1860 -- Jesse Buel, from The Farmer's Companion (1839) -- George Perkins Marsh, from "Address to the Agricultural Society of Rutland County" (1847) -- Wilson Flagg, "Agricultural Progress" (1859) -- George Henry Evans and the Working Men's Movement, "A Memorial to Congress" (1844) -- and "Vote Yourself a Farm" (1846) -- George Washington Julian, "Speech before Congress on the Homestead Bill" (1851) -- Edmund Ruffin, from "An Address on the Opposite Results of Exhausting and Fertilizing Systems of Agriculture" (1852) -- 3. The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism -- Albert Brisbane, "False Association, Established by the Capitalists, Contrasted with True Association" (1846) -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, from "Plan of the West Roxbury Community" (1842) -- Louisa May Alcott, from "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873) -- Andrew Jackson Downing, "Cockneyism in the Country" (1849) -- Susan Fenimore Cooper, from Rural Hours (1850) -- Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854) -- 4. Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860-1910 -- Thomas Starr King, from "Address before the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Society" (1862) -- Orson Hyde, from "Instructions" (1867).

Hamlin Garland, from A Son of the Middle Border (1917) -- Willa Cather, from My Ántonia (1918) -- L. L. Polk, from "Address before the Inter-States Convention of Farmers" (1887) -- Ignatius Donnelly, for the People's Party, from the Omaha Platform of the People's Party (1892) -- Luna Kellie, from "Stand Up for Nebraska" (1894) -- 5. Agrarians in an Industrial Nation, 1900-1945 -- Liberty Hyde Bailey Jr., from The Holy Earth (1915) -- David Grayson, from Adventures in Contentment (1907) -- Edwin G. Nourse, from "The Place of Agriculture in Modern Industrial Society" (1919) -- Henry A. Wallace, from "Putting Our Lands in Order" (1934) -- Ralph Borsodi, from Agriculture in Modern Life (1939) -- John C. Rawe and Luigi G. Ligutti, from Rural Roads to Security: America's Third Struggle for Freedom (1940) -- Louis Bromfield, from Pleasant Valley (1945) -- 6. Southern Agrarianism, 1925-1940 -- Twelve Southerners, from I'll Take My Stand (1930) -- Andrew Nelson Lytle, from "The Hind Tit" (1930) -- John Crowe Ransom, from "The Aesthetic of Regionalism" (1934) -- Allen Tate, from "Notes on Liberty and Property" (1936) -- H. L. Mencken, from "The South Astir" (1935) -- Ned Cobb (Nate Shaw), from All God's Dangers (1974) -- 7. Back to the Land Again, 1940-Present -- Aldo Leopold, from "The Farmer as a Conservationist" (1939) -- Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing, from Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World (1954) -- Earl L. Butz, from "Agribusiness in the Machine Age" (1960) -- Victor Davis Hanson, from The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer (2000) -- Hayden Carruth, "Marshall Washer" (1978) -- Wes Jackson, from "Becoming Native to Our Places" (1994) -- Wendell Berry, "Seven Amish Farms" (1981) -- Conclusion: American Agrarianism in the Twenty-first Century -- Bibliography -- Selection Credits -- Index -- A -- B.

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