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Informationen zum Autor George B. Tindall is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, he was graduated from Furman University and received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina. His previous books include South Carolina Negroes, 1877--1900, The Pursuit of Southern History (ed.), and A Populist Reader (ed.), and he has published widely in the historical journals. Professor Tindall has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and by the Social Science Research Council. During the preparation of this book he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has served on the faculties of Eastern Kentucky State College, the University of Mississippi, and Louisiana State University. Klappentext In this book, Volume X of A History Of The South, the historical image of the modern South is brought into full focus for the first time. George Brown Tindalll presents a thorough and well-balanced historical narrative of the region during the years 1913-1945 when the South underwent a transformation from predominantly agricultural area to one of growing industrialism.
