Renewing Birmingham - Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979

Informationen zum Autor Christopher MacGregor Scribner is an independent scholar in Birmingham, Alabama. Klappentext The first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city and advanced the civil rights agenda. Zusammenfassung The first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham’s transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power, influence, and justice in the city and advanced the civil rights agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Scribner, Christopher MacGregor Scribner
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2002
• EAN: 9780820323282
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2328-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Economy and Society in the Mod; Economy & Society in the Modern South; Economy and Society in the Mod
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Soziologie, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Stadt- und Gemeindeplanung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - General History