The People's Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People's Revolt write by Gregg Cantrell. This book was released on 2020-01-01. The People's Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging and meticulously researched history of Texas Populism and its contributions to modern American liberalism In the years after the Civil War, the banks, railroads, and industrial corporations of Gilded-Age America, abetted by a corrupt political system, concentrated vast wealth in the hands of the few and made poverty the fate of many. In response, a group of hard-pressed farmers and laborers from Texas organized a movement for economic justice called the Texas People's Party--the original Populists. Arguing that these Texas Populists were among the first to elaborate the set of ideas that would eventually become known as modern liberalism, Gregg Cantrell shows how the group broke new ground in reaching out to African Americans and Mexican Americans, rethinking traditional gender roles, and demanding creative solutions and forceful government intervention to solve economic inequality. Although their political movement ultimately failed, this volume reveals how the ideas of the Texas People's Party have shaped American political history.
The Populist Revolt
The Populist Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Populist Revolt write by John Donald Hicks. This book was released on 1931. The Populist Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. When The Populist Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called it "far and away the best account of populism that we have—and one not likely to be replaced." That prophecy proved right; the book has not been replaced, and historians and critics agree that it is the definitive work on its subject. Now it is made available once more, after being out of print for some time. This is a history of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, under whose banners a great crusade for farm relief was waged in the 1880's and 1890's. As important as the chronicle of the political movement itself is the detailed picture which Professor Hicks gives of the conditions which set the stage for this agrarian revolt. He describes the inequities and malpractices which beset both the new settlers of the West and the poverty-ridden whites and Negroes of the South following the Civil War. The story of Populism itself is a lively one, people with such picturesque leaders as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of South Carolina, "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and Mary Elizabeth Lease—the "Patrick Henry in petticoats"—of Kansas, "Bloody Bridles" Waite of Colorado, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, Dr. C. W. Macune of Texas, James B. Weaver of Iowa, and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. In these pages, Professor Hicks has, as Frederic L. Paxson pointed out, "presented the case for Populism better than the Populists themselves could do it." Henry Steele Commanger calls the book a "thorough, scholarly, sympathetic and spirited history of the entire Populist movement."
The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888: Its Conditions, Course and Sequel
The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888: Its Conditions, Course and Sequel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888: Its Conditions, Course and Sequel write by Sartono Kartodirdjo. This book was released on 2014-11-14. The Peasants’ Revolt of Banten in 1888: Its Conditions, Course and Sequel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
The Revolt of the Cockroach People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revolt of the Cockroach People write by Oscar Zeta Acosta. This book was released on 2013-02-06. The Revolt of the Cockroach People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.
The Peasant's Revolt
The Peasant's Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Peasant's Revolt write by Alastair Dunn. This book was released on 2004. The Peasant's Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stunningly good book on a revolt which came within a few minutes of changing our history utterly --totally absorbing.
