| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909–1921. By Bradford James Rennie. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $65, £42 cloth; $24.95, £16, paper.)

The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870–1940. By Kenneth Michael Sylvester. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. xii + 280 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $60, £40 cloth; $24.95, £16, paper).

These two books explore the reaction of Canadian farmers to capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors take different approaches to their studies, as Bradford James Rennie examines the political mobilization of farmers in Alberta while Kenneth Michael Sylvester uses quantitative methods to delineate the cultural effects of capitalism on family units in Manitoba. . . .

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