Commercial Farming and the "Agrarian Myth" in the Early Republic

Appleby, Joyce

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Section: The Family Farm and The American Way Of Lifementioning

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“…As long therefore as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans or anything else. (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Jay, 23rd August 1785; but see Appleby 1982) Jefferson envisaged a nation founded on husbandry. It was on the farm that the American ideals of independence, individualism, and true democracy would be nurtured (Gaer 1941, 43).…”

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Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Walker

2015

Contemporary Accting Res

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Responding to calls to instate the visual in accounting history research, this study utilizes photographic images to reveal the role of accounting in the attempt to preserve an ideal (ruralism) and an institution (the family farm) in the United States. These elemental features of the American way of life were threatened during the interwar depression, resulting in governmental programs to secure their restoration. The analysis of official imagery reveals how the accounting prescriptions attending state intervention in agriculture were deemed conducive to the fortification of the economic, social and political foundations of agrarian living. Documentary photographs propagated the notion that accounting facilitated companionate marriage and the inclusive family. They also suggested that accounting was a focus for encouraging the communitarian endeavor, democratic participation and receptivity to state interventionism considered necessary to preserve the rural mode of living.

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Section: The Family Farm and The American Way Of Lifementioning

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Section: The Family Farm and The American Way Of Lifementioning

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Accounting and Preserving the American Way of Life

Walker

2015

Contemporary Accting Res

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“…To that extent, it was no coincidence that he never resorted to the political appeal of such a figure, not even as a civic argument in support of his most daring project, i.e., the settlement of the 47) Th omas Jefferson (1972), XIX. See also Joyce Oldham Appleby (1982), 833-849; Richard K. Matthews (1986). 48) Th e expression gravata lavada, literally "washed necktie," translates an inclusive republican conception (although not universalistic) that encompassed the middle classes, proprietors, and literate people.…”

Section: Republicanism and The Agrarian Questionmentioning

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Where Only Wind Was Once Sown

Starling¹

2007

Contributions to the History of Concepts

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Th e article traces the reception of diff erent strands of Republicanism in Brazil. French republicanism inspired authors such as Euclides da Cunha in his realization that a true Brazilian republic would only be achieved with the inclusion of its vast interior and its destitute population. But the reception of republicanism in Brazil also drew from Anglo-Saxon sources, which resulted also in an emphasis on the political nature of the community. American republicanism, with its conception of territorial expansion, land possession, and active economic participation added a further dimension to Brazilian republicanism. In particular, Teofilo Otoni's attempt to create a political community in the Mucury Valley was modeled after the ideals of American republicanism. Even if the Brazilian republicanism that emerged from the reception of these strands failed to impose its agenda over the political mainstream, it provided a unifying ideology for the opposition throughout the Second Empire and the First Republic, and still constitutes a source of inspiration for political reform and criticism.

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“…This "agrarian myth" (Appleby, 1982) has been in part shaped by entertainment media; to understand society's cultural construction of U.S. agriculture, we must first understand the apparatuses through which Americans glean their knowledge about the food and fiber industry. To date, little research has been done to describe and catalog entertainment media portrayals of food and fiber production and their influences on public perception (Holt & Cartmell, 2013;Ruth, Lundy, & Park, 2005).…”

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