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Book Review


Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York. By Thomas Summerhill. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xiv, 287 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-250-02976-3.)
Thomas Summerhill's Harvest of Dissent is an excellent study of the continuity and change in agrarian dissent in central New York State during the nineteenth century. His goal is to relate local forms of radicalism to changes in the national political party system, the emergence of the market economy, and the social and cultural transformations that resulted. In short, this book is an ambitious attempt to place the dream of an agrarian republic within the harsh realities of the national political economy. . . .
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