Trouble in Goshen : plain folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South /

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The Great Depression emboldened Americans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those problems was that of Southern poverty; indeed, FDR claimed in 1933 that Southern rural poverty was the nation's 'number one economic pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Fred C., 1949 August 8-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Rural development > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Rural poor > Southern States > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Développement rural > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pauvres en milieu rural > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
New Deal.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
New Deal, 1933-1939
Rural development
Rural poor
Southern States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prevenience
  • Tupelo homesteads : a shelter in the storm
  • Dyess colony
  • Life and times at dyess
  • Delta cooperative farm and the death of a vision
  • Leaving goshen.

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