The 'people's Joan of Arc' : Mary Elizabeth Lease, gendered politics and Populist Party politics in Gilded-Age America / Brooke Speer Orr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orr, Brooke Speer, 1979-

Contributor:

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Series:

American university studies. Feminist studies ; Series XXVII, v. 14.

American University studies. Series XXVII, feminist studies, 1042-5985 ; vol. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 1850-1933.

Lease, Mary Elizabeth.

Populist Party (U.S. : 1892-1908)--Biography.

Populist Party (U.S. : 1892-1908).

Progressivism (United States politics)--History.

Progressivism (United States politics).

History.

Social reformers--United States--Biography.

Social reformers.

United States.

United States--History--1865-1921.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

Contents:

Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease: origins of a radical, 1853-1888

Lease and the rise of radical agrarian politics, late 1880s-early 1890s

To "raise less corn and more hell," Lease in the early 1890s

Lease, party politics, and agrarian radicalism, 1892-1894

Gendered discourse and partisan politics: Mary Lease and the evolution of populism, 1894-1895

Lease and the politics of silver, gold, and nationalism, 1896-1900

Lease, urban reform and republican politics: the ideological transition from populism to progressivism, 1896-1904

Lease and the American Progressive Movement, 1900-1920

Lease and the legacy of reform, 1921-1933.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781433102578

1433102579

9781453911983

1453911987

OCLC:

862041534

Publisher Number:

99957564311

40023414401

Best.-Nr.: 310257