UID:
almafu_9959851876002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 330 pages) :
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700600113
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0700600116
Inhalt:
Because Kansas has been called “the leading Midwestern Populist state,” and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas People’s party, its leaders, and their thoughts and actions is an important addition to Populist historiography. Through this study of the leadership, as well as a complete and personal background analysis of the Populist and Republican members of five Kansas legislatures, the author helps to place Populism within its proper historical context.Although Kansas Populism is shown to have had a retrogressive strain, the pervasive force of the movement is revealed as a constructive and progressive response to the technological achievements that had revolutionized agriculture and industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Their answers were not always commendable, but the Populists were the first political activists to come to grips in an effective manner with the problems created by the continuing economic revolution that uniquely characterizes modern history, and they were “intent on demonstrating, apparently, that the purification of politics was not an iridescent dream.” In the dialogue which they conducted, in the program which they advance, they assisted in launching a progressive quest that continues in our own time.Undertaken with the objective of testing recent controversial interpretations of the Populist movement, this book, according to one reader, “far surpasses” studies of Populism in other states “done long ago and innocent of modern methods.” It contains passages “almost epigrammatic in their perceptiveness” and is notable for the author’s “fairness in dealing with the evidence.” In fact, the breadth of research and the extensive annotation and bibliographical material included make this volume an important source in itself.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword to Kansas Open Books Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. "Nothing Succeeds Like Success": Kansas Populism's Gilded-Age Background -- II. A Dissident Dialogue -- III. Goodbye, My Party, Goodbye -- IV. Kansas Populist Leadership: Clodhoppers or Agrarian Iconoclasts? -- V. "A Turnip Crusade, As It Were" -- VI. Looking Toward 1892 -- VII. "Rats, Rats, and Pickled Cats Are Good Enough for Pops and Democrats" -- VIII. "The First People's Party Government on Earth" -- IX. Nothing Fails Like Failure: 1894 and the Redeemers -- X. Metamorphosis -- XI. Silver, Fusion, and Success? -- XII. The Determined and the Disgruntled -- XIII. Vindication? The Populist Leader in the Progressive Era -- Appendixes -- I. Individual Leaders and a Selective List of Sources for Biographical Statistics -- II. Composite Comparison of the Major Kansas Populist Leadership for the Years 1890 and 1896 -- III. Members of the 1893 House for Whom Information Was Obtained by Individual Reference and the Sources of that Information -- IV. Composite Comparison of the Kansas Legislatures of 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, and 1899 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780700630776
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0700630775
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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