Author : Carl H. Moneyhon
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 9781610750288
In Arkansas and the New South, 1874-1929 Carl Moneyhon examines the struggle of Arkansas's people to enter the economic and social mainstreams of the nation in the years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression. Economic changes brought about by development of the timber industry, exploitation of the rich coal fields in the western part of the state, discovery of petroleum, and building of manufacturing industries transformed social institutions and fostered a demographic shift from rural to urban settings.