History and hope in the heart of Dixie [[electronic resource] ] : scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South / / edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes, and Glenn Feldman

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.1/063
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - Alabama - History - 20th century; Religion and politics - Alabama - History - 20th century; Learning and scholarship - Political aspects - Alabama - History - 20th century; Historians - Alabama; Political culture - Southern States - History - 20th century; Religion and politics - Southern States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Alabama Politics and government 20th century; Alabama Race relations Political aspects History 20th century; Southern States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HarveyGordon E <1967-> (Gordon Earl) StarnesRichard D. <1970-> FeldmanGlenn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Can any good thing come from Auburn? / John Shelton Reed -- Revisiting race relations in an Upland South community : Lacrosse, Arkansas / Brooks Blevins -- Southern accents : the politics of race and the passage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Is there a balm in Gilead? Baptists and reform in North Carolina, 1900-1925 / Richard D. Starnes -- The beginnings of interracialism : Macon, Georgia, in the 1930s / Andrew M. Manis -- Race, class, the Southern conference, and the beginning of the end of the New Deal coalition / Glenn Feldman -- "Wallaceism is an insidious and treacherous type of disease" : the 1970 Alabama gubernatorial election and the "Wallace freeze" on Alabama politics / Gordon E. Harvey -- Divide and conquer : interest groups and political culture in Alabama, 1929-1971 / Jeff Frederick -- The scholar as activist / Dewayne Key -- Evangelist for constitutional reform / Bailey Thomson -- The historian as public policy activist / Dan T. Carter.
• Sommario/riassunto: Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region's poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation's eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability
• Titolo autorizzato: History and hope in the heart of Dixie
• ISBN: 0-8173-8195-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454754003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Modern South.