The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and Its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870-1880 - Couverture souple

Buck, Solon Justus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803250274 ISBN 13 : 9780803250277

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1963

Synopsis

This exhaustive examination of the granger movement and the other movements and alliances of the rural population during the 1870's has been indispensable to scholars in the field for more than fifty years.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Social unrest has been one of the most marked characteristics of the last half-century in the United States. During this period the country, and especially the western part of it, has been transformed from a comparatively simple agricultural community into a complex modem industrial state; and in the process of adjustment the agricultural class of the population, among others, has been inclined to feel aggrieved, llie result has been a series of radical agitations on the part of the fanners for the improvement, by organized effort, ci their relative condition. Of this general farmers movement, the first wave, which is the subject of this study, began with the establidmient of the order of Patrons of Husbandry in 1867, slowly gathered headway for a few years, and then suddenly culminated in a series of startling manifestations, political and economic, during the years from 187 to 1875. From then on to the end of the decade, this Granger movement gradually subsided, although many of its features were embodied in the programs of the more radical agricultural movements which took thdi rise in the early eighti;. It may be well to explain at the outset that this is not intended to be a history of the Grange, as the order of Patrons of Husbandry is frequently called The term Granger movement, nevertheless, is used advisedly: in the first place, because the phrase has the sanction of considerable usage, both contemporary and later, in the sense in which it is here applied; and secondly, because the movement did seize upon the order of Patrons of Husbandly as an efficient means of organization and a convenient rallying point. The contentions of members of the order that it should not be held responsible for many of the features rf the movement are doubtless sound, and it should be imderD,g,t,.,.d.i.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1963
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803250274
• ISBN 13: 9780803250277
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible