Article: Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South.(Book review)

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. By Matthew Hild. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 327. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2897-3.)

The literature on Populism is replete with references to the contributions made by earlier third parties and egalitarian producer groups to the People's Party effort of the 1890s in terms of leadership, program, and ideology. Most scholars, however, have employed such comments as a preface to another focus. Thus it has fallen to Matthew Hild to bring us the first book-length examination of the southern Populists' debt to the ...

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