Rebuilding Rural Southern Community: Reformers Schools Homes Tennessee 1900-1930

by Mary S. Hoffschwelle

In studying the reform programs of the Progressive Era, historians have often dealt with them in a strictly urban context--as responses to problems attending industrialization and immigration. Yet many reformers in those first three decades of the twentieth century concerned themselves with rural problems, for they believed that the decline of America's social, economic, and political values could be traced to the degeneration of the agricultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157233021X
• ISBN13: 9781572330214
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"