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Reading Southern Poverty between the Wars, 1918-1939
. Ed(S): Godden, Richard; Crawford, Martin
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hardcover. Features twelve essays on southern indigence between the World Wars, which share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. This volume shows that those who work to eradicate poverty can hesitate to cross the line of race, gender, memory, or tradition in pursuit of their goal. Editor(s): Godden, Richard; Crawford, Martin. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19 b&w photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJG; JFFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 513.
Franklin D. Roosevelt once described the South as ""the nation's number one economic problem."" These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between the World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined the web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in place, this volume opens up a new perspective. These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South - writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers - often ... Read more
Franklin D. Roosevelt once described the South as ""the nation's number one economic problem."" These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between the World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined the web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in place, this volume opens up a new perspective. These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South - writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers - often ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820327082
SKU
V9780820327082
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About . Ed(S): Godden, Richard; Crawford, Martin
Richard Godden is a professor of American history and literature at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Fictions of Labor and Fictions of Capital. Martin Crawford is a professor of Anglo-American history at Keele University. His books include Liberating Sojourn (Georgia) and Ashe County's Civil War.
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