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dc.contributor.authorClanton, O. Gene
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-13T20:51:46Z
dc.date.available2021-10-13T20:51:46Z
dc.date.issued1969-07-25
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7006-3077-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/32164
dc.descriptionO. Gene Clanton (1934’2017) was professor emeritus of history at Washington State University, where he taught for 29 years. This is his first of several books on populism.

Jeff Wells is associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He serves as the associate editor of the Middle West Review and his articles on Populism have appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, South Dakota History, and Nebraska History.
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dc.descriptionWith a New Foreword by Jeff Wells.
dc.descriptionThis Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
dc.description.abstractBecause Kansas has been called “the leading Midwestern Populist state,” and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas People’s party, its leaders, and their thoughts and actions is an important addition to Populist historiography. Through this study of the leadership, as well as a complete and personal background analysis of the Populist and Republican members of five Kansas legislatures, the author helps to place Populism within its proper historical context.

Although Kansas Populism is shown to have had a retrogressive strain, the pervasive force of the movement is revealed as a constructive and progressive response to the technological achievements that had revolutionized agriculture and industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Their answers were not always commendable, but the Populists were the first political activists to come to grips in an effective manner with the problems created by the continuing economic revolution that uniquely characterizes modern history, and they were “intent on demonstrating, apparently, that the purification of politics was not an iridescent dream.” In the dialogue which they conducted, in the program which they advance, they assisted in launching a progressive quest that continues in our own time.

Undertaken with the objective of testing recent controversial interpretations of the Populist movement, this book, according to one reader, “far surpasses” studies of Populism in other states “done long ago and innocent of modern methods.” It contains passages “almost epigrammatic in their perceptiveness” and is notable for the author’s “fairness in dealing with the evidence.” In fact, the breadth of research and the extensive annotation and bibliographical material included make this volume an important source in itself.
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dc.format.extentxiv, 330 pp.
dc.publisherUniversity Press of Kansasen_US
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dc.rights© 1969 O. Gene Clanton All Rights Reserved. First Published 1969. Reissued 2020. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.titleKansas Populism: Ideas and Menen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17161/1808.32164
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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© 1969 O. Gene Clanton
All Rights Reserved.
First Published 1969. Reissued 2020.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as: © 1969 O. Gene Clanton All Rights Reserved. First Published 1969. Reissued 2020. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.