Myth and Reality in the Populist RevoltHeath, 1966 - 112 pages |
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Page 5
... economy that had sustained the agrarian myth . In the post - Civil War decades , the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains became an area of chronic agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed ...
... economy that had sustained the agrarian myth . In the post - Civil War decades , the Mississippi Valley and the Great Plains became an area of chronic agricultural discontent as farmers contended with new economic forces that robbed ...
Page 51
... economic and social status is exactly the same . He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he intends to do about it hereafter , no man knows ; he , least of all men , knows . The American plutocrat has accepted the ...
... economic and social status is exactly the same . He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he intends to do about it hereafter , no man knows ; he , least of all men , knows . The American plutocrat has accepted the ...
Page 107
... economic wisdom , knowledge , varying talents , Christianizing or democ- ratizing what we have and are We feel that it is wrong to continue the selfish struggle , even with charitable or philan- thropic intent , as many noble souls are ...
... economic wisdom , knowledge , varying talents , Christianizing or democ- ratizing what we have and are We feel that it is wrong to continue the selfish struggle , even with charitable or philan- thropic intent , as many noble souls are ...
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