Abstract:Schwartz believes, were "intimately. tied to the structure and development of the tenant farming system" (p. 88). By 1890, he claims, Alliancemen "were in a position to mold and reshape" the structure of the tenant farming system (p. 246).Schwartz's economic assumptions and conclusions are challengeable, or at least insufficiently supported, and his claimed connection between the tenant farming structure and the Alliance is tenuous. It is not at all clear that tenants or insolvent yeomen dominated any consider… Show more
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