Land reform and working-class experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862
By exploring in detail land reform movements in Britain and the United States, this book transcends traditional labor history and conceptions of class to deepen our understanding of the social, political, and economic history of both countries in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the Chartist Land Company, the Potters' Joint-Stock Emigration Society, and the American National Reform movement, this study analyses the ideas that motivated workers to turn to land reform, the creation of working-class land reform cultures and identities among both men and women, and the international communication that enabled the formation of a transatlantic movement
Print Book, English, ©1999
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., ©1999
History
viii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
9780804734516, 0804734518
39281957
Introduction: why were there working-class land-reform movements in Britain and America?; 1. Three movements, one goal; 2. The intellectual heritage of working-class land reform; 3. Land-reform rhetoric and the currents of reform; 4. The competition for reforming attentions in the 1840's; 5. Making working-class activism: Anglo-American organizational strategies; 6. Under the banner of land reform in Britain and America; 7. The land plans, politics and the press; Epilogue.