The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression

by Walter L. Buenger

Book Overview

The forces that turned Northeast Texas from a poverty-stricken region into a more economically prosperous area.

Winner, Texas State Historical Association Coral H. Tullis Memorial Award for best book on Texas history, 2001

Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas, from a poverty-stricken region mired in Confederate mythology into a more modern and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292708882
• ISBN13: 9780292708884
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"