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Author Thomas, Jerry Bruce, 1941-

Title An Appalachian New Deal : West Virginia in the Great Depression / Jerry Bruce Thomas
Edition Pbk. ed
Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages) : illustrations, map
Series West Virginia and Appalachia ; v. 11
West Virginia and Appalachia ; 11
Contents West Virginia in the Great Depression -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 On the Eve -- 2 Drought and Depression -- 3 A Search for Order -- 4 A Jump in the Dark -- 5 The Blue Eagle -- 6 A Failed Experiment in Federal Relief -- 7 Reshaping the Welfare System -- 8 The New Deal and Mountain Agriculture -- 9 The New Deal and Families in Distress -- 10 Reluctant New Dealers -- Epilogue From Nearly Perfect to Almost Heaven -- Bibliography -- INDEX
Analysis Originally published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1998
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Notes Originally published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index
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Subject Depressions -- 1929 -- West Virginia
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- West Virginia
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
New Deal, 1933-1939
Depressions
Economic history
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT West Virginia -- History -- To 1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146231
West Virginia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146237
West Virginia -- Social conditions
West Virginia -- Economic conditions
Subject West Virginia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781933202976
1933202971