The Roots of Southern Populism Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 |
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| Author:
| Hahn, Steven |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-503249-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1983 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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"Hahn's study is impressively argued and richly documented. Its intensive and skillful use of local sources gives it a substantial and authoritative quality that disarms criticism."--The New York Review of Books. "Indispensable reading for all students of southern history and the history of American dissent."--David Brion Davis, Yale University. In this fresh examination of the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn focuses on social change and popular...
More Description"Hahn's study is impressively argued and richly documented. Its intensive and skillful use of local sources gives it a substantial and authoritative quality that disarms criticism."--The New York Review of Books. "Indispensable reading for all students of southern history and the history of American dissent."--David Brion Davis, Yale University. In this fresh examination of the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn focuses on social change and popular consciousness while exploring populism's kinship with other movements such as labor radicalism.