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The purpose of this bibliography is to bring together the significant
secondary materials relating to the history of the Farmers' Alliance and
Populist Party. Henry Clay
Dethloff produced the first edition of this bibliography, which the
Agricultural History Center at the University of California, Davis
published in hard copy in June, 1973. I
produced a revised edition in January 1989, which the Agricultural History Center
also published. The
first two editions appeared in hard copy.
This third edition appears on this Internet site only in December,
2000. I eliminated a number of items of a textbook nature for this
edition. In this third
edition, I have included multiple listings of entries that lend themselves
to such treatment, which was not done for previous editions of this
bibliography. Literature on
states with fewer than five entries are listed under the heading,
"Other States and Territories."
Contemporary observations and many primary sources have been excluded,
with the exception of select "official" publications and
documentaries. Articles in Arena, Forum, Nation
and North American
Review for the 1890s, for example, are not included
in this list, unless they had particular historiographical importance.
Many county and general state histories provide useful information
but are referenced here only if they contain some unusual emphasis on farm
movements and agricultural conditions in the late nineteenth century.
Entries appearing in the usual biographical dictionaries and
handbooks are not referenced. America:
History and Life and Dissertation Abstracts International may
contain more complete annotation about various entries than this
bibliography.
The chapters, "Agriculture and Agrarianism," "Farmer
Organizations," and "Political Movements Related to
Populism," are not meant to be exhaustive treatments of these
subjects. I included only the
references that seem most important to the study of the Farmers' Alliances
and Populist Party. Likewise,
I focused the chapter, "Bibliographies, Historiograhies, Problems
Books, and Review Essays," upon the items that seemed most important.
Worth
Robert Miller
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