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The Agrarian insurrection in Western Canada was once first released in 1948. A revised variation seemed in 1997.In the Forties, American graduate scholars travelled to the prairie provinces to investigate Canadian farm events. One was once Seymour Martin Lipset and the opposite used to be Paul F. Sharp. in this case, their revised dissertations have been released as books. Lipset’s Agrarian Socialism (1950), a sociological learn of Saskatchewan’s Cooperative Commonwealth (CCF), is the higher recognized of the 2 and has remained the purpose of departure for scholarship at the CCF ever seeing that. although now not as often pointed out, Sharp’s Agrarian riot in Western Canada is the normal paintings on its subject as well.It explores the historical past of agrarian insurgency within the prairie provinces from the flip of the century till the melancholy of the Nineteen Thirties. From Sharp’s standpoint, his paintings defined the heritage of either Alberta’s Social credits and Saskatchewan’s CCF. What made it provocative on the time was once its emphasis upon American impacts in those prior pursuits. nearly all reviewers said its contribution, and W. L. Morton provided a very enthusiastic evaluation of its benefits. The Agrarian rebellion in Western Canada presents a vital realizing of the advance of agrarian activities within the prairie provinces, and a truly priceless standpoint on such efforts south of the forty-ninth parallel.In honour of the 50th anniversary of the book of The Agrarian insurrection in Western Canada, the Canadian Plains learn heart is happy to make this seminal research to be had once again to scholars of either the Canadian and American farm events. New introductions via Professors William Pratt (University of Nebraska, Omaha) and Lorne Brown (University of Regina) learn Sharp’s legacy from a latest American and Canadian viewpoint respectively.