From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt : federal policy, economic development, and the transformation of the South, 1938-1980 / / Bruce J. Schulman

• Autore: Schulman Bruce J.
• Pubblicazione: New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1991; ©1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.975/009/04
• Soggetto topico: Economic assistance, Domestic - Southern States
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Economic policy; Southern States Economic conditions 1918-; Southern States Politics and government 1865-; Southern States Race relations
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-322) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Introduction: Becoming Economic Problem No. 1; 2. ""Wild Cards and Innovations,""; 3. The Wages of Dixie; 4. ""Bulldozers on the Old Plantation,""; 5. Persistent Whiggery: Federal Entitlements and Southern Politics; 6. Missiles and Magnolias; 7. ""Shadows on the Sunbelt,""; 8. Conclusion: Place Over People; Essay on Selected Sources; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a carefully executed study of the effects of federal economic policy in transforming the American South from the time of the New Deal to the present. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservativism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of aggressive programs to reorder the Southern economy. A generation of young liberal Southerners entered the national government to preside over these policies. After 1950, however, Keynesianism replaced New Deal reform as the mainstay of national economic policy, and the national security state supplanted the social we
• Titolo autorizzato: From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt
• ISBN: 0-19-771329-7; 1-280-52373-5; 1-4237-3641-9; 0-19-536344-2; 1-60129-724-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783379103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II