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A squatter's republic : land and the politics of monopoly in California, 1850-1900
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- Creator
- by Tamara Venit Shelton
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- Language
- English
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- Berkeley, California : Published for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press, [2013]
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- viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780873282550, 0873282558
- OCLC
- ocn830837512
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Squatters and speculators: the foundations of anti-land monopolism in California -- The squatter vote: squatters' rights and party politics from California to Kansas -- "Root the white race in the soil:" Henry George, land monopoly, and Chinese exclusion -- Labor and the land question: Henry George, Terrence Powderly, and industrial labor -- Reform -- Telling stories about squatters: representations of squatters in history and fiction -- Tramps and millionaires: anti-land monopolism and railroad reform -- Conclusion: outcasts in heaven itself