num_pages: 245
description: The grass-roots Populist movement that swept rural America a century ago millions of farmers and clusters of non-farmers into a powerful crusade to reshape the nation's political economy by ushering in a "cooperative commonwealth" to reverse the growth of America's monopoly capitalism. McMath crisply interprets the development of the Populist crusade from its early beginnings in the turbulent 1870s to its ultimate demise, and places it in a larger context as he compares it to later, parallel movements in the Great Plains and Canada.
language: English
title: American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898
titlecomplete: American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898 (American Century Series)
genres: American, History, American History, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 61
publisher: Hill and Wang