Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain

Catherine McNicol Stock

Published by Cornell University Press 2017

Rural Radicals

Righteous Rage in the American Grain

Catherine McNicol Stock

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501714047

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Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry. Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently.

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Stock Catherine McNicol :

Catherine McNicol Stock is Barbara Zaccheo Kohn ’72 Professor of History at Connecticut College. She is coeditor of The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, also from Cornell, and the author of Main Street in Crisis.

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"Catherine McNicol Stock traces the lineage of extremist white rural politics. She draws clear links between contemporary hate groups and a long tradition of rural political movements characterized by a fierce commitment to the rights of small landowners and family farmers, and by a culture of vigilantism. Rural Radicals is a wilde ride."

"A first-rate and highly accessible history of radicalism in rural America."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the Paperback Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Notes to the Preface to the Paperback Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxv
NTRODUCTION American Radicalism—Left, Right, and Rural Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. THE POLITICS OF PRODUCERISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. THE CULTURE OF VIGILANTISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
3. RURAL RADICALS IN OUR TIME Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
A NOTE ON METHOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
A NOTE ON SOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Edition: With a New Preface by the Author
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 250
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; U.S. History

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Published: October 15, 2017
ISBN: 9781501714047