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From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt : Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980 /

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt investigates the effects of federal policy on the American South from 1938 until 1980 and charts the close relationship between federal efforts to reform the South and the evolution of activist government in the modern United States. Decrying the South's economic bac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schulman, Bruce J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the Duke Edition
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No.1
  • 2. ""Wild Cards and Innovations""
  • 3. The Wages of Dixie
  • 4. ""Bulldozers on the Old Plantation""
  • 5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics
  • 6. Missiles and Magnolias
  • 7. ""Shadows on the Sunbelt""
  • 8. Conclusion: Place Over People
  • Essay on Selected Sources
  • Notes
  • Index.