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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790264703321

Autore

Badger Anthony J

Titolo

New Deal/New South [[electronic resource] ] : an Anthony J. Badger reader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, c2007

ISBN

1-61075-277-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CobbJames C

Disciplina

975/.043

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century

New Deal, 1933-1939 - Southern States

White people - Southern States - History - 20th century

Southern States History 1951-

Southern States History 20th century

Southern States Politics and government 20th century

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword by James C. Cobb; Introduction; 1.  Huey Long and the New Deal; 2. How Did the New Deal Change the South?; 3. The Modernization of the South: The Lament for Rural Worlds Lost; 4. Whatever Happened to Roosevelt's New Generation of Southerners?; 5. Southerners Who Refused to Sign the Southern Manifesto; 6. The White Reaction to 'Brown' : Arkansas, the SouthernManifesto, and Massive Resistance; 7. "Closet Moderates": Why White Liberals Failed, 1940-1970; 8. From Defiance to Moderation: South Carolina Governors and Racial Change

9. "When I Took the Oath of Office, I Took No Vow of Poverty": Race, Corruption, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1928-200010. The Dilemma of Biracial Politics in the South since 1965; 11. Southern New Dealers Confront the World: Lyndon Johnson, Albert Gore, and Vietnam; 12. The Anti-Gore Campaign of 1970 (with Michael S. Martin); Acknowledgments; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

<div>Anthony J. Badger is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College. He is the author of a number of books, including North Carolina and the New Deal; The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940; The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement (with Brian Ward); and Contesting Democracy (with Byron Shafer).</div>