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Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by Matthew Hild

Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by... Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working- Class Protest Matthew Hild Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018 xiii + 206 pp., $40.00 (cloth) Matthew Hild knows Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists like sabremetri- cians know ballplayers — the arc of each one’s career, their wins and losses calculated to the third decimal place. Happily, he has fixed his connoisseur’s gaze on Arkansas, a state whose post- Reconstruction decades have been understudied but that saw an early and powerful eruption of the farm and labor protests that eventually yielded Populism. The result is the most comprehensive treatment of political coni fl ct in Gilded Age Arkan - sas published to date. It nicely complements Kenneth Barnes’s Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861 – 1893 (1998), a masterful study of a single county’s experience in an era when local politics and government counted for everything. Hild begins with the Greenback candidacies of the late 1870s and then the forma- tion, in 1882, of two organizations — the Agricultural Wheel and Brothers of Freedom — that wrestled with the toils and snares of an expanding cotton economy, whether http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Labor Duke University Press

Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest by Matthew Hild

Labor , Volume 17 (2) – May 1, 2020

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1547-6715
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1558-1454
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10.1215/15476715-8114830
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Arkansas’s Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working- Class Protest Matthew Hild Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018 xiii + 206 pp., $40.00 (cloth) Matthew Hild knows Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists like sabremetri- cians know ballplayers — the arc of each one’s career, their wins and losses calculated to the third decimal place. Happily, he has fixed his connoisseur’s gaze on Arkansas, a state whose post- Reconstruction decades have been understudied but that saw an early and powerful eruption of the farm and labor protests that eventually yielded Populism. The result is the most comprehensive treatment of political coni fl ct in Gilded Age Arkan - sas published to date. It nicely complements Kenneth Barnes’s Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861 – 1893 (1998), a masterful study of a single county’s experience in an era when local politics and government counted for everything. Hild begins with the Greenback candidacies of the late 1870s and then the forma- tion, in 1882, of two organizations — the Agricultural Wheel and Brothers of Freedom — that wrestled with the toils and snares of an expanding cotton economy, whether

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