They Live on the Land: Life in an Open-country Southern Community

Paul W. Terry,Verner M. Sims

They Live on the Land: Life in an Open-country Southern Community
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Country
United States
Published
28 February 1993
Pages
384
ISBN
9780817305871

They Live on the Land: Life in an Open-country Southern Community

Paul W. Terry,Verner M. Sims

First published in 1940 as part of the information-gathering effort of the TVA, the work examines Gorgas, Alabama, a predominantly white farming settlement. Hailed as the most intensive case study ever made in the South, the book provides a detailed portrait of southern rural life on the verge of extinction. —Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the finest examples of the genre of the community survey… The book is remarkably free of special pleading. And every chapter is paced with fascinating data and insights. The University of Alabama Prss is to be congratulated for reissuing this splendid community study; the volume fits the description of a classic. And Clarence L. Mohr’s introduction alone is worth the price of the volume. —Journal of Southwest Georgia History

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