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Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890.

The Journal of Southern HistoryPublished 1 November 1977
Robert C. McMath, Michael K. Schwartz
Citations112
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Abstract

Michael Schwartz's book is really three books in one an analysis of the structural changes that produced one of the most oppressive social systems the world has known (the one-crop cotton tenancy economy and the system of institutionalized racism and authoritarian one-party politics that was required to preserve the fragile economic arrangement); a theoretical analysis of the origins, mobilization, and outcome of insurgent challenges; and a meticulous application of that theory to the rise and collapse of the Populist movement. Craig Jenkins, Theory and Society

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Social SciencesAgricultural and Biological Sciences