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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995: A Study in Political Economy. By Ronald E. Seavoy. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xiv, 599 pp. $79.50, isbn 0-313-27511-4.)

Ronald E. Seavoy, an economist in the Indiana University business school, is a prodigious historical researcher and the author of provocative books with a near-global grasp. He has already assayed The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (1982), Famine in Peasant Societies (1986), and Famine in East Africa (1989). Now, in 1999, when American labor productivity is the world's standard, comes a vast history of United States agriculture in which Seavoy argues that until recently most rural Americans—southerners especially—were "indolent." . . .

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