Katherine Rye Jewell

Dollars for Dixie

Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dollars for Dixie, Katherine Rye Jewell demonstrates how conservative southern industrialists pursued a political campaign to preserve regional economic arrangements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781107174023
• ISBN-10: 1107174023
• Artikelnr.: 47723134

Autorenporträt

Katherine Rye Jewell is Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

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.