Young america: land, labor, and the republican community
Auteur :
Lause, Mark A.
Éditeur :
University of Illinois Press
ISBN :
9780252072307
Date de publication :
14 juin 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
340 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that it was the working people's interest in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset - land - that led them to advocate a federal Homestead Act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership.