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Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870-1915
Connie L. Lester
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Hardcover. Analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers' lives and familial and communal networks. This book not only provides an important reassessment of agrarian reform and radicalism in Tennessee, but also links this Upper South state into the broader sweep of southern and American farm movements. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 b&w photos, 5 tables, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 617.
The first book-length study of Tennessee's agricultural history in the ""Gilded Age and Progressive Era"". ""Up from the Mudsills of Hell"" analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers' lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state's late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers' Alliance through the insurgency of the People's Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service ... Read more
The first book-length study of Tennessee's agricultural history in the ""Gilded Age and Progressive Era"". ""Up from the Mudsills of Hell"" analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers' lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state's late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers' Alliance through the insurgency of the People's Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327624
SKU
V9780820327624
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About Connie L. Lester
Connie L. Lester is an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
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