The agrarian seeds of empire : the political economy of agriculture in US state building

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The agro-industrial roots of the US capitalist transition through state capacity building : 1830-1870 -- The end of slavery and southern agricultural class structure -- Farmer organizations : the rise and fall of populism -- State institutional capacity building through the agro-industrial project of the USDA-research complex -- The new deal and agricultural state institutional capacity building -- Sowing the seeds of globalization : post-war food aid, trade and the agricultural roots of US hegemony -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography