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Anniston's early years constitute a fascinating story - of the collaborative efforts of an Englishman and a Connecticut Yankee to develop the iron resources of northeast Alabama at a time when the area was struggling to recover from the devastating effects of the Civil War. The result was a robust, successful new town that benefited from their profit-minded business acumen and from their paternalistic but utopian mind-set. With town-building and boosting efforts, Anniston soon became known to contemporaries as "the model city of the New South."
The town's economic survival through booms and busts is a study in marketing and diversification, of reliance on old liaisons in hard times. Originally published in 1978, the book explores Anniston's first quarter century and yields rich material because it cuts across several historical fields, including urban, economic, quantitative, social, and political history, as well as labor and race relations.
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- PublisherUniversity Alabama Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0817308180
- ISBN 13 9780817308186
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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THE MODEL CITY OF THE NEW SOUTH; ANNISTON, ALABAMA 1872-1900.
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Tuscaloosa, AL and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1996., 1996
ISBN 10: 0817308180
ISBN 13: 9780817308186
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Reprint (first published 1978) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 321 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Glossy paper covers lightly rubbed. Author's six-line ink inscription "For Sarah - | A wonderful friend | and mentor! | Come to Anniston - | Grace Hooten Gates | April 1996" upon the half-title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. The inscribee is Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins (1934-2020) who earned her doctorate at Louisiana State University under the tutelage of Professor T. Harry Williams before her illustrious career as the first female professor in the history department at the University of Alabama as well as serving as editor of "The Alabama Review" for two decades and authoring two books regarding Alabama history. ISBN 0817308180. Seller Inventory # CMS-00086
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