The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary AllegoryRanjit S. Dighe Bloomsbury Academic, 2002 M06 30 - 149 pages The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated version of The Wizard of Oz that highlights the possible political and monetary symbolism in the book by relating characters, settings, and incidents in it to the historical events and figures of the 1890s, the decade in which Baum wrote his story. Dighe simultaneously values the leading political interpretations of Oz as useful and creative teaching tools, and consolidates them in a sympathetic fashion; yet he rejects the commonly held, and by now well-debunked, view that those interpretations reflect Baum's likely motivations in writing the book. The result is a unique way for readers to acquaint themselves with a classic of children's literature that is a bit different and darker than the better-known film version. |
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... symbolize America's passing from an agricultural to an industrial nation . In 1892 , however , populism , of both the small - p and large - P forms , was the biggest story . Although the nonfarm economy was in generally good shape ( the ...
... symbolize the Populists ' and Bryan's shrillness on the silver issue . Clanton ( 1998 , p . 186 n.8 ) says it symbolizes the beguiling nature of the free - silver issue to Western farmers and the way the Populists ( and perhaps Bryan ) ...
... symbolized by the Scarecrow ) , as well as the Midwestern industrial workers , whose strug- gles with employers in the ... symbolize the people of the Philippines , since McKinley had refused to grant their independence after gaining ...
Contents
The Colors of Money | 1 |
Another FiatMoney Metaphor | 131 |
The Quantity Theory of Money | 141 |
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