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A Theory of Early Twentieth-Century Agrarian Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Anne Kane  and
Michael Mann
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The pre-world war I period decisively structured modern class relations in Europe and the United States. Farmers, the largest population group, greatly influenced the development of capitalism and states. Scholars have demonstrated farmers’ significance in particular areas (e.g., Blackbourn in Germany and Esping-Andersen in Scandinavia), but there has been little comparative analysis. Farmer politics, and thus modern class relations in general, have been inadequately theorized. Most existing work on agrarian classes has also been economistic, neglecting politics. We fill the gaps by analyzing agrarian politics in the United States, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.

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Social Science History , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , Fall 1992 , pp. 421 - 454
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1992 

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