Broschiertes Buch

Country Women Cope with Hard Times

Beschreibung

Rare glimpses into the hardscrabble lives of rural Southern women and a model for oral history practice

Autor

Melissa Walker is the George Dean Johnson Jr. Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she has been the recipient of the O'Herron Award for Faculty Excellence and the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2007 she was named the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching/CASE South Carolina Professor of the year. President of the Agricultural History Society and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH), Walker is also the author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories and All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941, winner of the SAWH Willie Lee Rose Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781570039539
• ISBN-10: 1570039534
• Artikelnr.: 29498762