Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Empire, he broadens this insight and creates a new "consensus" view of American social and economic history. As he told an audience at Harvard last year, he has found that American farmers first fully enunciated the rationale of marketplace expansion as a necessary condition for democracy and prosperity. The agrarians, between 1860 and 1893, coherently argued that such expansion "extended the freedom of all men." Their conception was adopted by industrialists in the crisis of 1893. Typical of agrarian expansionism was The Prairie Farmer's demand to Congress in 1898: open up Cuba for trade and establish "peace and sound...