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June, 2006
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The Other Missouri History
Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk

Edited by Thomas M. Spencer
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 241. Notes, index. Paperbound, $24.95.)

The nine essays that comprise this volume consider the ways in which ordinary people—those without power or wealth—have been able to influence public policy. Using the organizing categories of race, gender, and class, the authors explore how these "other" Missourians have helped to shape the history of the state. Wide ranging in time and topic, the essays investigate race and politics in the post-Civil War era, labor organization (both farm and industry) from the antebellum period to modern times, and the legal and illegal organization of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although the essays deal specifically with Missourians and Missouri issues, they point to ways in which locally-based social history can enrich our understanding of national trends and demonstrate how everyday people help to influence the course of history. . . .
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