Lower Piedmont Country: The Uplands of the Deep South (Library of Alabama Classics) - Softcover

Nixon, Herman Clarence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081730214X ISBN 13: 9780817302146

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1984

Synopsis

A long out-of-print classic, Lower Piedmont Country is set in northeastern Alabama, although the narrative encompasses the region form the Mississippi Delta to the Virginia Tidewater. The book surveys the history, politics, religion, economy (both rural and industrial), and folkways of the hill-country people as the author knew them during the Depression and war years.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This classic examination of the Southern hill-country surveys the history, politics, religion, economy, and folkways of the region as the author knew them in the Great Depression and World War II.

About the Author:

H.C. Nixon was born in Merrellton, Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1886. A faculty member at the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, Nixon was a contributor to the “Agrarian manifesto,” I’ll Take My Stand, in 1930, and was the author of Forty Acres and Steel Mules (1938) and editor of the Vanderbilt University Press. Lower Piedmont Country was first published in 1946.

 Sarah N. Shouse is on the history faculty at Alabama A & M University in Huntsville.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 081730214X
• ISBN 13: 9780817302146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296