Dollars for Dixie - Business Transformation of Conservatism in Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Rye Jewell is Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts. Klappentext In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements. Zusammenfassung Jewell writes the first history of the Southern States Industrial Council (SSIC)! which charts its transformation as a regional business interest to a key player in the South's dramatic political realignment in the post-1945 era from 'Solid South' to conservative Republican stronghold. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The New South and the New Deal; Part I. Working within the New Deal: 1. The New South and the NRA; 2. Southern industry and the Southern region; 3. Confronting the 'Wagner monstrosity'; Part II. Free Enterprise and the South: 4. Creating the nation's economic 'opportunity' no. 1; 5. Rates, war, and the turn to free enterprise; 6. The South as the 'bulwark of democracy'; 7. Downplaying Dixie; Conclusion. The politics of free enterprise.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Rye Jewell, Katherine Rye (Fitchburg State University Jewell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107174023
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17402-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; 20th Century, North America, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Economic history, Political Economy, History of the Americas