Grass-roots Socialism
Author: James R. Green
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Published: 1980
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Grass-Roots Socialism
Author: James R. Green
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1978-07-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780807107737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrass-Roots Socialism answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organizations in nearby rural southwestern areas? Many of the same grievances that had created a strong Populist movement in the region provided the Socialists with potent political issues—the railroad monopoly, the crop lien system, and political corruption. With these widely felt grievances to build on, the Socialists led the class-conscious farmers and workers to a radicalism that was far in advance of that advocated by the earlier People’s party. Examined in this broadly based study of the movement are popular leaders like Oklahoma’s Oscar Ameringer (“The Mark Twain of American Socialism”), “Red Tom” Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O’Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. Included also is information on the party’s propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers which claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and on the attractive summer camp meetings which drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions.
The Color of the Land
Author: David A. Chang
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0807895768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property. Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced "removal" of the Creeks from their homeland to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the transformation of the Creeks' enslaved black population into landed black Creek citizens after the Civil War, the imposition of statehood and private landownership at the turn of the twentieth century, and the entrenchment of a sharecropping economy and white supremacy in the following decades. In struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white. By telling this story, David Chang contributes to the history of racial construction and nationalism as well as to southern, western, and Native American history.
Labor's Promised Land
Author: Mark Fannin
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781572332515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By subverting customary values to promote movements in which solidarity was more powerful than social divisions, these unions challenged the very cornerstones of traditional southern society: women were encouraged to "think and act for themselves," and they assumed leadership roles within the movements; the rhetoric of race was radicalized; and the religious foundations of devout communities were shaken by an approach that reactionaries saw as explicit and often blasphemous. Thus, by upsetting the conservative values and traditions espoused by the agricultural and industrial elites, these organizations provide an important link between the promise of the South and the realization of working-class aspirations."
The Curriculum
Author: Landon E. Beyer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-04-09
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780791438107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition of the classic text extends the scope of critically-oriented work in curriculum studies.
Eugene V. Debs
Author: Nick Salvatore
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780252011481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life of the controversial American socialist and social reformer and assesses his role in American history.
Encyclopedia of American Social Movements
Author: Immanuel Ness
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-17
Total Pages: 2832
ISBN-13: 1317471881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.
A Companion to American Religious History
Author: Benjamin E. Park
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1119583675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of original essays exploring the history of the various American religious traditions and the meaning of their many expressions The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History explores the key events, significant themes, and important movements in various religious traditions throughout the nation’s history from pre-colonization to the present day. Original essays written by leading scholars and new voices in the field discuss how religion in America has transformed over the years, explore its many expressions and meanings, and consider religion’s central role in American life. Emphasizing the integration of religion into broader cultural and historical themes, this wide-ranging volume explores the operation of religion in eras of historical change, the diversity of religious experiences, and religion’s intersections with American cultural, political, social, racial, gender, and intellectual history. Each chronologically-organized chapter focuses on a specific period or event, such as the interactions between Moravian and Indigenous communities, the origins of African-American religious institutions, Mormon settlement in Utah, social reform movements during the twentieth century, the growth of ethnic religious communities, and the rise of the Religious Right. An innovative historical genealogy of American religious traditions, the Companion: Highlights broader historical themes using clear and compelling narrative Helps teachers expose their students to the significance and variety of America’s religious past Explains new and revisionist interpretations of American religious history Surveys current and emerging historiographical trends Traces historical themes to contemporary issues surrounding civil rights and social justice movements, modern capitalism, and debates over religious liberties Making the lessons of American religious history relevant to a broad range of readers, The Blackwell Companion to American Religious History is the perfect book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in American history courses, and a valuable resource for graduate students and scholars wanting to keep pace with current historiographical trends and recent developments in the field.
The American West
Author: Michael P. Malone
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780803260221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.
The Human Tradition in American Labor History
Author: Eric Arnesen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780842029872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssembles biographical stories of famous leaders and unknown activists, covering the 18th century up to 1970. Relates to enslaved artisans, interracial unionism, immigration, Jewish radicalism and gender, the New Black Politics, reverse migration in World War II, the United Farm Workers Union, etc.
