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Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984 /

In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, however, as James C. Cobb demonstrates in this illuminating book, industrial development left much of the South's poverty unrelieved and ofte...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Édition:Paperback edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Shaping of Southern Growth; 2. The Twentieth-Century South and the Campaign for New Industry; 3. The Sunbelt South; 4. Life and Labor in the Industrializing South; 5. Industrial Development and Reform in the Post-World War II South; 6. Natural and Environmental Resources and Industrial Development; 7. Why the New South Never Became the North: A Summary; Bibliographic Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.