Thomas Summerhill

Thomas Summerhill is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

James C. Scott

Transatlantic Rebels
Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context

 Edited by

Thomas Summerhill

James C. Scott

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. 

Contents:
-Susan Sleeper-Smith, Agricultural Dynamics of the Columbian Exchange.

-Rusty Bitterman, Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island in Transatlantic Context: From the Aftermath of the Seven Years’ War to the 1840s.

-Thomas Summerhill, The U.S. as a Postcolonial State, 1789- 1865.

-Daniel Samson, 'The Yoke of Improvement’: Sir John Sinclair, John Young and the Improvement of Scotland’s, New and Old.

- Marixa Lasso, Threatening Pardos: Pardo Republicanism in Colombia, 1811–1830.

-John Reeve Huston, Multiple Crossings: Thomas Devyr and the American Fate of British Agrarianisms.

-David A.Y.O. Chang, ‘Primitive Christianity’ and ‘Modern Socialism’: Thomas W. Woodrow and Agrarian Socialism.” 

-Gregory Crider, Radical Rhetoric, Repressive Rule: Sindicate Power in the Atlixco (Mexico) Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century.

-James McCann, Seeds of Subversion?: A New World Plant and Agrarian Change in Two Peasant-based Empires, 1500–1999.

-Louis Ferleger, Transatlantic Travails: German Experiment Stations and the Transformation of American Agriculture.

-Sarah T. Phillips, Drylands, Dust Bowl, and Agro-Technical Internationalism in Southern Africa.