The Social Origins of the Urban South Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930 |
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| Author:
| Kyriakoudes, Louis M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-2811-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $157.00 |
Book Description:
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, Louis Kyriakoudes explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects on regional development.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, Louis Kyriakoudes explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects on regional development.