Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984

by James C. Cobb

Book Overview

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 often reinforced rather than undermined its conservative social and political philosophy. The exploitation of the South's resources, largely by interests from outside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191092
• ISBN13: 9780813191096
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher