Spirit of Rebellion - Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South

Informationen zum Autor Jarod Roll teaches American history at the University of Sussex! England! where he is founder and director of the Marcus Cunliffe Center for the Study of the American South. Klappentext Jarod Roll teaches American history at the University of Sussex! England! where he is founder and director of the Marcus Cunliffe Center for the Study of the American South. Zusammenfassung Documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. This book reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used the resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Jared Roll, Jarod Roll
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780252077036
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07703-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Working Class in American History; Working Class in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous