Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917

(Part of the American Politics and Political Economy Series)

by Elizabeth Sanders

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Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226734773

ISBN13:9780226734774

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:542 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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