Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression : The Report on Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents

ISBN 10: 0312114974 / ISBN 13: 9780312114978

Published by Bedford/Saint Martin's, 1996

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Synopsis:

The National Emergency Countil's 1938 Report on Economic Conditions of the South caused Franklin Roosevelt to view the south as "the Nation's #1 economic problem" and quickly became a standard part of modern Southern history. This important and out-of-print document is reprinted here, along with primary accounts of the Depression-era South, statistical data, and contemporary reactions to the Report.

About the Author:

David L. Carlton is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, where he has taught since 1983. He is the author of Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920 (1982) and a number of publications dealing chiefly with the urban, industrial, and labor history of the American South. He is currently working on a study of the industrialization of North Carolina.

Peter A. Coclanis is a member of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many works in economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989), which won the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great ...
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good