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Radical protest and social structure : the Southern Farmers' Alliance and cotton tenancy, 1880-1890

Title: Radical protest and social structure : the Southern Farmers' Alliance and cotton tenancy, 1880-1890 / by Michael Schwartz.
Author: Schwartz, Michael, 1942-
Publication: New York : Academic Press, 1976.

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Description

xi, 302 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in social discontinuity

Uniform Title

Studies in social discontinuity

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Tenancy, southern politics, and the spiral of agrarian protest -- Basic tenancy relationships -- The tenancy system -- The dynamics of change in southern farm tenancy -- Cotton tenancy, farmer immiseration, and the reemergence of the planter aristocracy -- growth and merger -- Structure and structural tension within the alliance -- Defining the farmers' alliance -- The parameters of organizational behavior -- The determinants of organized protests -- The life of protest organizations -- Local economic action and the process of escalation -- The alliance exchange: the ultimate counterinstitution -- The great jute boycott -- The farmers' alliance in and around Richmond county, North Carolina -- The logic of the shift into politics -- The legacy of populism defeated.

ISBN

0126328501
9780126328509

LCCN

75040614

OCLC

ocm02331053
2331053
SCSB-106480

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library