Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression
Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression
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Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression by David L Carlton
Sure to be of regional interest and to appeal to fans of noir or 'dark' fiction, this spicy black brew of sinister thrills is not for the squeamish or the easily offended.
--Library Journal Unsettling and shivery.
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--Austin Chronicle Includes brand-new stories by: James Crumley, Joe R. Lansdale, Claudia Smith, Ito Romo, Luis Alberto Urrea, David Corbett, George Weir, Sarah Cortez, Jesse Sublett, Dean James, Tim Tingle, Milton Burton, Lisa Sandlin, Jessica Powers, and Bobby Byrd. Bobby Byrd is the co-publisher of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas. As a poet, Byrd is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship awarded by the University of New Mexico, and an International Residency Fellowship. John Byrd, co-publisher of Cinco Puntos Press, is co-editor (with Bobby Byrd) of the anthology Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera. He is also a Spanish-to-English translator and a freelance essayist.
David L. Carlton is associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, where he has taught since 1983. He is the author of Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920 (1982) and a number of publications dealing chiefly with the urban, industrial, and labor history of the American South. He is currently working on a study of the industrialization of North Carolina. Peter A. Coclanis is a member of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of many works in economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989), which won the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780312114978 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312114974 |
| Title | Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression |
| Author | David L Carlton |
| Series | Bedford Series In History And Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| Year published | 1996-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |