Changing Perceptions of Homesteading as a Policy of Public Domain Disposal

Autor/in	Edwards, Richard
Titel	Changing Perceptions of Homesteading as a Policy of Public Domain Disposal
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (2009) 3, S.179-202 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	United States History; Public Policy; Geographic Regions; Land Settlement; Migration; Historical Interpretation; Policy Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Ordnung; Siedlungsraum; Historische Interpretation; Politikfeldanalyse
Abstract	The inspiring story of homesteaders claiming free land and realizing their dreams became one of the enduring narratives of American history. But scholars who have studied homesteading have often been much more ambivalent, even harshly negative, about how successful it was in practice. While the public often views our history differently from scholars, in this case the disparity appears both substantial and persistent. Perhaps it is time to revisit homesteading and reassess whether homesteading really was a good idea or not. Certainly homesteading once powerfully fired the American imagination. The promise of free land was such a startling idea that it created a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, much like Henry Ford's later announcement of the five-dollars-a-day wage. It offered a seemingly magical possibility, one that people wanted so strongly to believe that it proved essentially impervious to contrary evidence. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10