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A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850-1900 (Western Histories)

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Who will have to have the proper to own land, and what sort of of it? A Squatter’s Republic follows the upward thrust and fall of the land question within the Gilded Age—and the upward thrust and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the writer considers the land question during the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was once a squatter’s republic—a society of white men who claimed no more land than they might use, and who promised to uphold agrarian republican ideals and face up to monopoly, the nemesis of democracy. Their opposition to land monopoly became entwined with public discourse on Mexican land rights, industrial labor relations, immigration from China, and the upward thrust of railroad and other corporate monopolies.
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