Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History. from reconstruction to the presentBlanche Wiesen Cook, Alice Kessler-Harris, Ronald Radosh Knopf, 1973 - 352 pages |
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... farmers in favor of big ones . Prices for grain storage , milk distribution , and agricultural machinery seemed neverendingly monopolized by powerful groups against whom battle was futile . Even the monetary policies that deprived ...
... farmers in favor of big ones . Prices for grain storage , milk distribution , and agricultural machinery seemed neverendingly monopolized by powerful groups against whom battle was futile . Even the monetary policies that deprived ...
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... farmers took the place of European workers.4 In Europe industrialization uprooted the peasants from the land and brought them to the cities , where they became revolutionary workers . But the uprooted European peasants who settled in ...
... farmers took the place of European workers.4 In Europe industrialization uprooted the peasants from the land and brought them to the cities , where they became revolutionary workers . But the uprooted European peasants who settled in ...
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... farms . By 1900 , the figure was down to 35.7 percent . " Farmers were no longer a majority of the population . The decline in the relative number of farmers continued in the twentieth century . From 1920 to 1944 , there was a large net ...
... farms . By 1900 , the figure was down to 35.7 percent . " Farmers were no longer a majority of the population . The decline in the relative number of farmers continued in the twentieth century . From 1920 to 1944 , there was a large net ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Origins of American Imperialism | 65 |
The Seventh Power ERNEST R MAY 68 Why the United States Went | 92 |
Copyright | |
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