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9780195384710

The Populist Vision

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    9780195384710

  • ISBN10:

    0195384717

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-04-17
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Populist movement has been both dismissed as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to modernity and romanticized as a resistance movement of tradition-based communities to modern, commercial society. Now, in a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment, based on a deep reading of archival sources, The Populist Vision argues the opposite--that the Populists understood themselves as, and in fact were, modern people, pursuing an alternative vision for modern America. Taking into account the leaders and the led, The Populist Vision uses a wide lens--focusing on the farmers, both black and white, men and women--but also looking at wage workers and bohemian urbanites. Ranging from Texas to the Dakotas, from Georgia to California, Charles Postel shows how farmer Populists strove to use the new innovations for their own ends. They sought scientific and technical knowledge, formed highly centralized organizations, launched large-scale cooperative businesses, and pressed for reforms on the model of the nation's most elaborate bureaucracy--the Postal Service. Hundreds of thousands of women joined the movement, too, seeking education, employment in schools and offices, and a more modern life. Miners, railroad workers, and other labor Populists joined with farmers to give impetus to the regulatory state. Activists from Chicago, San Francisco, and other new cities provided Populism with a dynamic urban dimension. The winner of a prestigious Bancroft Prize and the Organization of American Historian's Frederick Jackson Turner Award, this highly original account of the Populist movement is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics, society, and culture of modern America. "This is the most important book on Populism in thirty years. Masterfully researched in an astonishingly broad array of primary and secondary sources, and written in a clear, compelling style, The Populist Vision propels its author into the first rank of American political historians." --Journal of American History "An original and riveting account of the Populist vision that jump-started 20th-century social reform movements and is still relevant to our contemporary American society." --Ruth Rosen, truthdig.com "Here is a history as diverse, complex, and surprising as the Populists themselves. Sympathetic but clear-eyed, respectful but unromantic, Postel challenges some of the most entrenched misconceptions in all of American history." --Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond

Author Biography


Charles Postel is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. xiii
Introduction Modern Timesp. 3
Farmers
Push and Energy: Boosterism and Rural Reformp. 25
Knowledge and Power: Machinery of Modern Educationp. 45
A Better Woman: Independence of Thought and Actionp. 69
A Farmers' Trust: Cooperative Economies of Scalep. 103
Populists
Business Politics: State Models and Political Frameworksp. 137
Race Progress: Shaping a New Racial Orderp. 173
Confederation: Urban, Labor, and Nonconformist Reformp. 205
Shrine of Science: Innovation in Populist Faithp. 243
Conclusion: Populist Defeat and Its Meaningp. 269
Notesp. 291
Bibliographyp. 349
Indexp. 379
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