Harvest of Dissent

With an elegant blend of political, social, and economic history, Thomas Summerhill'sHarvest of Dissentinvestigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth-century New York. By reexamining the nature of Northern farmers' embrace of, or resistance to, the emergence of capitalist market agriculture, Summerhill convincingly demonstrates the protracted process of drawing farmers into capitalist markets, and the ways farmers selectively and creatively resisted it.Harvest of Dissentbrings together the events of nearly a century of agrarian radicalism in central New York--including the Anti-Rent movement and the Grange movement-- to mark political, economic, and social transformations in the emergence of modern America.Summerhill, Thomas is the author of 'Harvest of Dissent', published 2008 under ISBN 9780252075476 and ISBN 0252075471.