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Author Sanders, Elizabeth.

Title Roots of reform : farmers, workers, and the American state, 1877-1917 / Elizabeth Sanders.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  322.4309 Sa56r    ---  Available
Description x, 532 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Series American politics and political economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-510) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Political economy -- Core and periphery in the American economy -- Labor organizations and the state, 1873-1912 -- Farmers in politics, 1873-1896 -- Agrarian politics and parties after 1896 -- Agrarian statist agenda -- Transportation system -- Trade, taxation, banking, and credit -- Antitrust and the structure of the marketing network -- Federal aid for practical education : farmers first -- Labor program of the Farmers' Party -- Farmers, workers, and the administrative state -- Conclusion.
Subject Lobbying -- United States -- History.
Pressure groups -- United States -- History.
Farmers -- United States -- Political activity -- History.
Working class -- United States -- Political activity -- History.
Social movements -- United States -- History.
Populism -- United States -- History.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
ISBN 0226734773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226734765 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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