Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
Engelsk Paperback
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
- Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
Engelsk Paperback

249 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage

Om denne bog
Finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award  Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between U.S. agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics, helping readers to understand populism’s tendency toward racism and exclusion. Carr follows the story of her great-grandfather Omer Madison Kem, three-term Populist representative from Nebraska, avid spiritualist, and committed eugenicist, to explore persistent themes in U.S. history: property, personhood, exclusion, and belonging. While recent books have taken seriously the experiences of poor whites in rural America, they haven’t traced the story to its origins. Carr connects Kem’s journey with that of America’s white establishment and its fury of nativism in the 1920s. Presenting crucial narratives of Indigenous resistance, interracial alliance and betrayal, radical feminism, lifelong hauntings, land policy, debt, shame, grief, and avarice from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, Carr asks whether we can embrace the Populists’ profound hopes for a just economy while rejecting the barriers they set up around who was considered fully human, fully worthy of this dreamed society.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496235060
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1496235061
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 maj 2023
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
151mm
Forlag:
University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato:
1 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
Ofte købt sammen
Minder om
Kategori sammenhænge