Populism in the South revisited new interpretations and new departures / [electronic resource] : edited by James M. Beeby. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012. - xxi, 234 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : populism in the American South / James M. Beeby -- "The race cry doesn't scare us"-- or does it? : populism and race in Grant Parish, Louisiana / Joel Sipress -- "Workingmen's democracy" in the deep South : the Knights of Labor in Georgia politics, 1884-1892 / Matthew Hild -- "Of whom shall the third party be composed?" : urban laborers and the origins of the People's Party in Dallas, Texas / Alicia E. Rodriquez -- Agrarian rebel, industrial workers : Tom Watson and the prospects of a farmer-labor alliance / Michael Pierce -- "Hard times is the cry" : debt in populist thought in North Carolina / David Silkenat -- Reconceptualizing Black populism in the New South / Omar H. Ali -- Creating a New South : the political culture of deep South populism / Lewie Reece -- "[T]he angels from heaven had come down and wiped their names off the registration books" : the demise of grassroots populism in North Carolina / James M. Beeby -- Agrarian producerism after populism : socialism and Garveyism in the rural South / Jarod Roll.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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9781617032257 (cloth alk. paper) 9781617032332 (e-book)




Populism--History--Southern States--19th century.
Working class--Political activity--History--Southern States--19th century.
Political culture--History--Southern States--19th century.


Southern States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--19th century.
Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.


Electronic books.

JK2372 / .P67 2012eb

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