19th century history
19th century lang ownership
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american history
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california history
california land use
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chinese immigration
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early 20th century history
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gilded age politics
henry george
industrial labor
industrial labor in gilded age
land monopoly
land ownership
land tenure
landed independence
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mexican land rights
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railroad in california
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speculators in california
squatters
squatters in california
terence powderly
tramps
western american history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520289093
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded Age - and the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was a squatter's republic - a society of white men who claimed no more land than they could use, and who promised to uphold agrarian republican ideals and resist monopoly, the nemesis of democracy. Their opposition to land monopoly became entwined with public discourse on Mexican land rights, industrial labor relations, immigration from China, and the rise of railroad and other corporate monopolies.
Tamara Venit Shelton is Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College.
