| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Connie L. Lester. Up from the Mudsills of Hell: The Farmers' Alliance, Populism, and Progressive Agriculture in Tennessee, 1870–1915. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 321. $44.95.

This is a well-written, carefully researched, solidly documented, intellectually sophisticated study of Tennessee's agrarian communities (plural is quite appropriate here) during that crucial transition period in American history encompassing the so-called Gilded Age through the Populist and Progressive eras. In Connie L. Lester's words, the record "reveals a more complex history of rural transformation and intransigence and extends evolutionary cooperativism into the Progressive Era" (p. 5)—a finding that has, according to Lester, been obscured or overlooked in previous Tennessee histories.

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