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Revolt of the rednecks Mississippi politics, 1876-1925.
In post-Civil War years agriculture in Mississippi, as elsewhere, was in a depressed condition. The price of cotton steadily declined, and the farmer was hard put to meet the payments on his mortgage. At the same time the corporate and banking interests of the state seemed to prosper. There were rea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington,
University of Kentucky Press,
1951.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In post-Civil War years agriculture in Mississippi, as elsewhere, was in a depressed condition. The price of cotton steadily declined, and the farmer was hard put to meet the payments on his mortgage. At the same time the corporate and banking interests of the state seemed to prosper. There were reasons for this beyond the ken of the poor hill farmer -- the redneck, as he was popularly termed. But the redneck came to regard this situation -- chronic depression for him while his mercantile neighbor prospered -- as a conspiracy against him, a conspiracy which was aided and abetted by the leaders. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) illustrations, portraits, maps |
| Bibliografía: | "Critical essay on authorities": pages 315-320 |
| ISBN: | 9780813150734 0813150736 |