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Autore: | Flynt Wayne <1940-> |
Titolo: | Alabama in the twentieth century [[electronic resource] /] / Wayne Flynt |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (621 p.) |
Disciplina: | 976.1/063 |
Soggetto geografico: | Alabama History 20th century |
Alabama Civilization 20th century | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-578) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | In the beginning : the 1901 constitution -- Every man for himself : politics, Alabama style -- Selling Alabama : the economy -- Life from the bottom up : society -- Teaching the people : education -- On and off the pedestal : women -- Counting behind white folks : African Americans -- Fighting mad : Alabamians at war -- Beyond the game : the social significance of sports -- What would Jesus do? religion -- Plain and fancy : folk and elite culture. |
Sommario/riassunto: | An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context. Alabama is a state full of contrasts. On the one hand, it has elected the lowest number of women to the state legislature of any state in the union; yet according to historians it produced two of the ten most important American women of the 20th century-Helen Keller and Rosa Parks. Its people are fanatically devoted to conservative religious values; yet they openly idolize tarnished football programs as the source of their heroes. Citizens who are puzzled by Alabama's maddening |
Titolo autorizzato: | Alabama in the twentieth century |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8186-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910778045103321 |
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