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Chargement... Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks (Working Class in American History)par J. Blake Perkins
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J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins focuses on the experiences and attitudes of rural people themselves as they interacted with government in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He uncovers the reasons local disputes and uneven access to government power fostered markedly different reactions by hill people as time went by. Resistance in the earlier period sprang from upland small farmers' conflicts with capitalist elites who held the local levers of federal power. But as industry and agribusiness displaced family farms after World War II, a conservative cohort of town business elites, local political officials, and Midwestern immigrants arose from the region's new low-wage, union-averse economy. As Perkins argues, this modern anti-government conservatism bore little resemblance to the populist backcountry populism of an earlier age but had much in common with the movement elsewhere. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Having not lived in the US before, or been to the Ozarks, it held a certain fascination and some romanticism for me.
I have to say that this book was very well researched and presented. Even for someone like myself, who has no idea of the history or people, it proved fascinating and eye opening. I now understand the economic importance of certain things and the role that moonshine payed in those communities. Politics and power plays as allways prove very fascinating, especially in this community.
I know some people said that it wasn't a page turner. That may well be the case, but it is a valid and extremely interesting book.
I would recommend it to everyone who has an interest in History.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. ( )