Rural Radicals : : Righteous Rage in the American Grain / / Catherine McNicol Stock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Stock, Catherine McNicol,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: With a New Preface by the Author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry. Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Notes to the Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- NTRODUCTION -- 1. THE POLITICS OF PRODUCERISM -- 2. THE CULTURE OF VIGILANTISM -- 3. RURAL RADICALS IN OUR TIME -- A NOTE ON METHOD -- A NOTE ON SOURCES -- NOTES -- INDEX