Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Brief Contents v
3. Contents vii
4. Foreword xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Shaping the Agrarian Republic, 1780–1825 9
7. 2. A Nation of Farmers: The Promise and Peril of American Agriculture, 1825–1860 57
8. 3. The Machine in the Garden: The Rise of American Romanticism 105
9. 4. Agriculture in an Industrializing Nation, 1860–1910 149
10. 5. Agrarians in an Industrial Nation, 1900–1945 199
11. 6. Southern Agrarianism, 1925–1940 251
12. 7. Back to the Land Again, 1940–Present 299
13. Conclusion: American Agrarianism in the Twenty-first Century 369
14. Bibliography 377
15. Selection Credits 391
16. Index 393