Reformatting Agrarian Life Stephanie Gilmore Roles and relationships are central

Roles and relationships are central themes: their complexity is stressed

particularly Ida Tarbell

The erasure or marginalization of the northern black experience and the centrality of the business of slavery to the northern economy allows for a dangerous fiction-that North has no history of racism to overcome

offering them encouragement to think across disciplinary boundaries

Reformatting Agrarian Life Stephanie Gilmore Roles and relationships are centralReformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. William J. Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the city in late colonial India and began to settle in agrarian space, exploring how two milieus that were initially seen as distinct were gradually brought together both conceptually and in practices