Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South

by Matthew Hild

Book Overview

Historians have widely studied the late-nineteenth-century southern agrarian revolts led by such groups as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's (or Populist) Party. Much work has also been done on southern labor insurgencies of the same period, as kindled by the Knights of Labor and others. However, says Matthew Hild, historians have given only minimal consideration to the convergence of these movements.

Hild shows that the Populist (or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357081
• ISBN13: 9780820357089
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"