Transatlantic Rebels

by Summerhill, Thomas; Scott, James C.; Jack and Margaret Sweet Symposium (2000 : Michigan State University)

• ISBN13: 9780870137273
• ISBN10: 0870137271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

This collection, by an international array of historians, examines agrarian radicalism in comparative context from 1500 to the present. What unifies the studies is a shared interest in the ways in which agrarian people in the Atlantic world interacted with each other, transmitted and translated ideas, developed new crops or methods, or formulated critiques of the existing social, economic, and political order. All agree, to varying extents, that the Atlantic world is best conceptualized not as a rigid barrier between nations, peoples, and cultures, but rather a frontier, a permeable space with eddies and currents of ideas, cultivars, and human beings. In addition, as these essays indicate, "radicalism" can be found not only in the political realm, but also in the rate and extent of social, economic, and environmental change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Thomas Summerhill
Foreword	ix
James C. Scott
Agricultural Dynamics of the Columbian Exchange	1	(20)
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island in Transatlantic Context: From the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War to the 1840s	21	(34)
Rusty Bittermann
The United States as a Postcolonial State, 1789-1865	55	(32)
Thomas Summerhill
``The Yoke of Improvement'': Sir John Sinclair, John Young, and the Improvement of the Scotlands, New and Old	87	(30)
Daniel Samson
Threatening Pardos: Pardo Republicanism in Colombia, 1811-1830	117	(20)
Marixa Lasso
Multiple Crossings: Thomas Ainge Devyr and Transatlantic Land Reform	137	(30)
Reeve Huston
``Primitive Christianity'' and ``Modern Socialism'': Thomas W. Woodrow and Agrarian Socialism''	167	(26)
David A. Y. O. Chang
Radical Rhetoric, Repressive Rule: Sindicato Power in the Atlixco (Mexico) Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century	193	(28)
Gregory S. Crider
Seeds of Subversion? A New-World Plant and Agrarian Change in Two Peasant-Based Empires, 1500--1999	221	(24)
James C. McCann
Transatlantic Travails: German Experiment Stations and the Transformation of American Agriculture	245	(20)
Louis A. Ferleger
Drylands, Dust Bowl, and Agro-Technical Internationalism in Southern Africa	265	(34)
Sarah T. Phillips
Contributors	299