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"Roll illuminates the socialist traditions of the region as well as the impact of Pentecostal religious movements of the farmers' worldview. Recommended."--"Choice"
"Roll successfully knits together labor and religious history to create a compelling account of labor organizing. His is a story little heard: black and whites joining forces and overcoming their differences by dint of shared struggle and faith."--"Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"
"A terrific book. Roll's emphasis on agrarian protest as a labor struggle is refreshing and informative, and his reading of the religious terrain of this important social movement is pathbreaking. The engaging topic and intriguing characters make "Spirit of Rebellion" a must read for historians of labor, civil rights, social change, and rural societies."--Ken Fones-Wolf, author of "Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s"
"Roll's work is highly ambitious. . . . This is a skillful book."--"The Journal of American History" "A terrific book. Roll's emphasis on agrarian protest as a labor struggle is refreshing and informative, and his reading of the religious terrain of this important social movement is pathbreaking. The engaging topic and intriguing characters make "Spirit of Rebellion" a must read for historians of labor, civil rights, social change, and rural societies."--Ken Fones-Wolf, author of "Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s"
"An important contribution to religious studies. . . . Roll has uncovered a story worth telling."--"The Journal of Southern Religion" "Roll's work is highly ambitious. . . . This is a skillful book."--"The Journal of American History"
"An important book. . . . The willingness of sharecroppers and tenants in the 1930s to confront a powerful elite in order to remain on the land suggests an intense commitment to an agricultural way of life, despite the odds against securing landownership. Roll has given us a way to understand the ideology behind their struggle.--" Labor: Studies in Working-Class History""Roll successfully knits together labor and religious history to create a compelling account of labor organizing. His is a story little heard: black and whites joining forces and overcoming their differences by dint of shared struggle and faith."--"Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"
""Spirit of Rebellion" offers a compelling interpretation to explain sharecroppers' bold protests in the late 1930s and early 1940s. . . . [A] meticulously researched book."--"Arkansas Historical Quarterly"
"Roll illuminates the socialist traditions of the region as well as the impact of Pentecostal religious movements of the farmers' worldview. Recommended."--"Choice"
"Roll successfully convinces that understanding agrarian protests in the Missouri Bootheel, and the rural South more broadly, is essential to comprehending twentieth-century American protest traditions."--"Arkansas Review"
"An important book. . . . The willingness of sharecroppers and tenants in the 1930s to confront a powerful elite in order to remain on the land suggests an intense commitment to an agricultural way of life, despite the odds against securing landownership. Roll has given us a way to understand the ideology behind their struggle.--" Labor: Studies in Working-Class History"
"Roll successfully knits together labor and religious history to create a compelling account of labor organizing. His is a story little heard: black and whites joining forces and overcoming their differences by dint of shared struggle and faith."--"Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"
""Spirit of Rebellion" offers a compelling interpretation to explain sharecroppers' bold protests in the late 1930s and early 1940s. . . . [A] meticulously researched book."--"Arkansas Historical Quarterly"
"Roll illuminates the socialist traditions of the region as well as the impact of Pentecostal religious movements of the farmers' worldview. Recommended."--"Choice""
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