Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Spring 2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 32:2 (Spring 2012).
Abstract
"During this era, farmers and workers watched as forces of wealth captured control of both major political parties, promoting the formation of monopolies. . . . In the process, the small capitalist class gained control of the great bulk of the nation's wealth. This monetary disparity exacerbated class divisions in the country, and many worried that it would lead to violence and upheaval." That sounds like contemporary headlines about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It isn't. Those words in this book's introduction describe the era from 1865 to 1894, taking in the conditions that spawned one of the most successful, yet failed, third-party political uprisings in America, the Populists.
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