| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. By Matthew Hild. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. xvi, 327 pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2897-3.)

Matthew Hild's excellent book on the farmer-labor insurgency in the late nineteenth-century American South convincingly argues that southern Populism was more than just a movement of farmers; it was a farmer-labor movement. Hild expertly weaves together examples of labor and farmer insurgencies across the South from 1872 to 1896, to support his contention for continuity in the farmer-labor revolt. Although Hild analyzes the entire South, his central focus is on Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas. Those states exhibited organized labor's strength, particularly the Knights of Labor and the Greenback Labor Party, and also farming organizations such as the Grange, Agricultural Wheel, and Farmers' Alliance.

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