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Sto caricando le informazioni... Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New Historydi Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld (Autore), Rebecca S. Wingo (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Though I could say that this is very much an "everything-you-know-is-wrong" kind of book the arguments of the authors are rather more nuanced than that. Using the database of digitized Nebraska homestead patent papers housed at the Homestead National Monument of America they seek to revisit the academic conventional wisdom of the impact of the Homestead Act of 1862, which has become increasingly negative over the years. Their initial conclusions are that, in the main, the Homestead Act did what it was supposed to do; set up "actual settlers" on the land in such a way that communities could emerge and did so with relatively little fraud. The authors' key suspicion is that the requirements for having witnesses for completing the process and publicizing this acted as a check on small-scale chicanery. If there is any darkness to the process it has less to do with massive land speculation enabled by giveaways such as the right-of-ways granted to railroads, military bounty land scrip bought up on the cheap by land agents and the distribution of agricultural college scrip (which seemed dominated by political insiders in the relevant states) and to how the clamor for cheap land in the Dakota Territory and Oklahoma instigated further land theft from the First Nations. Greatly recommended for those interested in learning the best understanding of what homesteading meant in practice. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "-- "A study that draws on a new dataset to reexamine established critical interpretations of the Homestead Act, including the overall success of homesteading, fraudulent claims, Indian land dispossession, the participation of women in homesteading, and the formation of both farms and communities in the homesteading process"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The book was enjoyable and easy to read. It was recommended by two Rangers at the Homestead National Monument near Beatrice, Nebraska; after reading, I also highly recommend it. ( )