From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980

by Bruce J. Schulman

Book Overview

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 conservatism, 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195057031
• ISBN13: 9780195057034
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"