Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas

by Thomas Alter and Thomas Alter II

Book Overview

Agrarian radicalism's challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a potent force in politics. Thomas Alter II follows three generations of German immigrants in Texas to examine the evolution of agrarian radicalism and the American and transnational ideas that influenced it. Otto Meitzen left Prussia for Texas in the wake of the failed 1848 Revolution. His son and grandson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086368
• ISBN13: 9780252086366
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 298 Pages