A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982 - 146 pages Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the "money power." |
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... aware of her presence . Hamlin Garland , a literary interpreter of the rural Midwest of this period , himself spent six weeks on the campaign trail in 1892 on behalf of the People's Party . During the course of his travels , he met ...
... aware of her presence . Hamlin Garland , a literary interpreter of the rural Midwest of this period , himself spent six weeks on the campaign trail in 1892 on behalf of the People's Party . During the course of his travels , he met ...
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... aware that despite her ultimate objective , Emery's heavy emphasis on the overwhelming role of an adequate , stable currency supply blinded her to problems beyond currency that plagued the farmer . She summarily dismissed such possible ...
... aware that despite her ultimate objective , Emery's heavy emphasis on the overwhelming role of an adequate , stable currency supply blinded her to problems beyond currency that plagued the farmer . She summarily dismissed such possible ...
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... complex , but as more aware of the complexities in her milieu . Yet she did take sides , the side of the underclass , the class least able to fend for itself . Chapter IV Her Assault on the Status of Women in 60 A Populist Assault.
... complex , but as more aware of the complexities in her milieu . Yet she did take sides , the side of the underclass , the class least able to fend for itself . Chapter IV Her Assault on the Status of Women in 60 A Populist Assault.
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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