South and the New Deal

Informationen zum Autor Roger Biles, professor of history at Illinois State University, is the author of several books, including Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago. Klappentext When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its education level the lowest, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Roosevelt's New Deal effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the southern way of life. In The South and the New Deal, Roger Biles examines the New Deal's impact on the rural and urban South, its black and white citizens, its poor, and its politics. Zusammenfassung At the same time, firmly entrenched values and institutions militated against change and blunted the impact of federal programs. In The South and the New Deal, Roger Biles examines the New Deal's impact on the rural and urban South, its black and white citizens, its poor, and its politics.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Biles
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.1994
• EAN: 9780813191690
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-9169-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: New Perspectives on the South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous