Rural Democracy : : Family Farmers and Politics in Western Washington, 1890-1925 / / Marilyn P. Watkins.
What happens to social movements in rural settings when they do not face the divisive issues of race and class? Marilyn Watkins examines the stable political climate built by successive waves of Populism, socialism, the farmer-labor movement, and the Grange, in turn-of-the-century western Washington...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 19 b&w illustrations, 5 maps, 16 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Agrarian Activism, Gender, and Lewis County
- 2. Rural Community Life: Lewis County in the 1890s
- 3. New Visions: Political Culture in the Farmers' Alliance
- 4. Populists and Republicans: National Parties and Local Issues
- 5. Progressive Populists: The Grange in Lewis County
- 6. Specialization and Cooperation: Agricultural Change in the Early Twentieth Century
- 7. A Community in Conflict: The End of Tolerance
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index