Download or read book The Tennessee Valley Region Highlights of Growth and Change written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Regional Studies Staff and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming the South written by Matthew L. Downs and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long recognized the middle of the twentieth century as significant in the history of the modern South, owing to a convergence of social change, political realignment, and cultural expansion. This period in southern history has provided extensive material for scholars of race, gender, and politics. In addition, sweeping economic changes spread throughout the South, permanently shifting the area's material resources. Transforming the South examines this transition from farm to factory and explores the dramatic reshaping of the region's economy. Matthew L. Downs focuses on three developments in the Tennessee Valley: the World War I-era government nitrate plants and hydroelectric dams at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; the extensive work completed by the Tennessee Valley Authority; and Cold War/Space Age defense investment in Huntsville, Alabama. Downs argues that the modernization of the Sunbelt economy depended on cooperation between regional leaders and federal funders. Local boosters lobbied to receive federal funds for their communities while simultaneously forming economic development organizations that would prepare those communities for further growth. Economic reform also drove social reform: as members of historically disenfranchised groups attained employment in the new industrial workforce, they gained financial and political capital to push for social change. Transforming the South considers the role played by the recipients of government funds in the mid-twentieth century and demonstrates how communities exerted an unparalleled influence over the federal investments that shaped the southern economy.
Download or read book The Tennessee Valley Region written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Economic Research Staff and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tennessee Valley Region written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Government Relations and Economics Staff and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Project on Research in Agricultural and Industrial Development in the Tennessee Valley Region written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Division of Regional Studies and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profile of a Region written by Tennessee Valley Authority and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Region Building written by James Dahir and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of the Tennessee Valley written by Tennessee Valley Authority and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating a different Citizen written by Matthew L. Downs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation describes the process of cooperation and contestation by which residents, civic leaders, state officials, and federal politicians in the Tennessee Valley encouraged the economic development of their rapidly changing region. Beginning in 1916, when the Woodrow Wilson administration authorized construction of a hydroelectric dam and nitrate-producing plants at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, federal investment provided the means by which communities created (or attempted to create) prosperity by encouraging industrial development in a dying agricultural economy. The debates over Muscle Shoals led to the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, but federal officials found that Valley residents rejected broad-based social reorganization in favor of directed economic investment. During the "Gunbelt" defense boom of World War II, Valley leaders increased calls for development, especially at Huntsville, where the inconsistency of federal funds led community leaders to develop a modern, professional industrial recruitment campaign. In the Tennessee Valley, and across the South, the Sunbelt economy emerged as locals encouraged federal investment in order to bring development while rejecting and redirecting broader calls for social change. Historians have only recently begun to investigate the complicated process by which the southern economy modernized in the twentieth century, but none have provided an in-depth exploration of the long-term growth of one particular region, such as the Tennessee Valley. Drawing on local records, numerous Valley newspapers, and federal records, this dissertation traces the process by which Valley residents attempted to attract industries and businesses to the region. As such, this research provides insight into the birth of the modern southern economy.
Download or read book The First Fifty Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Valley Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing Structure and Change in the Tennessee Valley Region 1959 1963 written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Government Relations and Economics Staff and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Valley Region Population Changes 1950 1955 written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Government Relations and Economics Staff and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Income Levels in the Upper Tennessee Valley written by Fletcher Eugene Riggs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the characteristics of high- and low-income counties in the upper Tennessee Valley supports the conclusions and general recommendations reached in other studies of low-income rural areas in the South. A decline in the number of people dependent on agriculture for a livelihood and an increase in the quantity of productive farm capital for those remaining in agriculture are necessary adjustments to raise farm-family income in low-income rural counties to a level more nearly approaching that of high-income counties.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Download or read book Tennessee Valley Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Development Tennessee Valley Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
