Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

by Robert Korstad and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Book Overview

'Methodologically the book is significant in its subtle blend of oral and traditional history....Like a family is that rare compelling book, a delight for the academic and public, with much to say to both.' --Orville Vernon Burton, Journal of American History

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393306194
• ISBN13: 9780393306194
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Oral History at Its Best

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and the other writers of _Like a Family_ created a tour-de-force study of cotton mill towns in the American South. It is a very rare book that captures such a clear, complex sense of history; Hall balances a careful sense of detail with a sweeping picture of life in the cotton-mill South by using a combination of oral and written sources. This book is perfect for scholars and non-scholars alike, and richly conjures a full picture of this period in American history.