Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 and other books.

"Recommended."--Choice  "His method of tracing links between apparently distinct movements has the potential to alter conventional assumptions about nineteenth-century politics and reform. His book is welcome invitation to look at the landscape afresh… Lause makes a sound case for the progressive character of these ideals, points out subsequent developments that consigned those ideals to obscurity, and explains why they have been disregarded,"--Journal of American History  "Lause once again does a great job of showing the depth of political currents during this period. He demonstrates the link between antebellum land reform ideals and the rise of post-bellum radicalism, and carries the political history of period beyond the constraints of sectional strife."--Left History

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. A Workers' Movement 1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement 2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association 3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism Part 2. The Agrarian Persuasion 4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society 5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution 6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology Part 3. The Impact of National Reform 7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists 8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism 9. The Republican Revolution: Victory beyond and by the Ballot Epilogue: The Triumph and Tragedy of Antebellum Social Radicalism Conclusion Appendix A: National Reform Movement, A Brief Overview, 1844-52 Appendix B: National Industrial Congresses Appendix C: New England Regional Associations Appendix D: National Reform Songs Notes Index

Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 and other books.

"Recommended."--Choice  "His method of tracing links between apparently distinct movements has the potential to alter conventional assumptions about nineteenth-century politics and reform. His book is welcome invitation to look at the landscape afresh… Lause makes a sound case for the progressive character of these ideals, points out subsequent developments that consigned those ideals to obscurity, and explains why they have been disregarded,"--Journal of American History  "Lause once again does a great job of showing the depth of political currents during this period. He demonstrates the link between antebellum land reform ideals and the rise of post-bellum radicalism, and carries the political history of period beyond the constraints of sectional strife."--Left History

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. A Workers' Movement 1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement 2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association 3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism Part 2. The Agrarian Persuasion 4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society 5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution 6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology Part 3. The Impact of National Reform 7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists 8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism 9. The Republican Revolution: Victory beyond and by the Ballot Epilogue: The Triumph and Tragedy of Antebellum Social Radicalism Conclusion Appendix A: National Reform Movement, A Brief Overview, 1844-52 Appendix B: National Industrial Congresses Appendix C: New England Regional Associations Appendix D: National Reform Songs Notes Index