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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945 (Studies in Legal History)
Victoria Sak Woeste
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Paperback. Legal and political struggles in America redefined the place of agriculture in the industrial market. The author of this book aims to show that farms were adept at borrowing such legal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and obtaining legislative recognition of the new style. Series: Studies in Legal History. Num Pages: 464 pages, 18 illustrations, 4 maps, 22 tables, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; LNKF; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry- wide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply preserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new legal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a legal and political struggle ... Read more
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self- sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry- wide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply preserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new legal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a legal and political struggle ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Legal History
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847312
SKU
V9780807847312
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About Victoria Sak Woeste
Victoria Saker Woeste is a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.
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