Preface To Peasantry by Arthur F. Raper

The University of North Carolina, 1936T. hardcover. Good. . DJ shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, and tanning. Pages tanned and clean.

South Carolina. Used - Very Good. 2005. Paperback. Pap. Slight shelf-wear. Very Good.

South Carolina. Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2005. Originally published at $14.95.

Paperback / softback. New. A social scientist and public intellectual, Arthur Raper (1899-1979) was a white southerner who advocated unpopular liberal solutions to combat the shortcoming of southern race relations. Originally published in 1936, Preface to Peasantry confirmed Raper's inclusion in the Chapel Hill southern Regionalist movement of the 1930s and '40s and his evocation of New Deal federal planning in the creation of social policy. The result of a seven-year investigation into social problems stemming from African American emigration from the rural south and the resulting turnover in farm tenancy, Raper's work focuses on the agricultural depression of Greene County, Georgia, bereft of departing black sharecroppers, and the contrasting economic stability of Macon County, Georgia, were the population had gone without significant upheaval. Adroitly juxtaposing themes of history and sociology, Preface to Peasantry is a text both descriptive of a broad phenomenon and prescriptive of… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of North Carolina Press. Used - Good. 423 pp., illus. Corner of front board badly bumped, with corresponding loss to top corner of first two leaves (not affecting any text or illustrations). Head and heel of spine a little frayed. Still a good working copy.

University of North Carolina Press, 1936. Used - Very Good. 1936. Hardcover. Cloth, 8vo, xiii + 423 pp., 2-sided frontispiece and b/w plates throughout; maps, tables, and graphs. A study of Greene and Macon counties, Georgia. Ex-library with the usual markings. A very clean copy with hardly any shelf wear. Ex-lib. Near fine. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)

University of North Carolina Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Completely unmarked. From the library of F. Garbin Davenport, noted historian who did extensive research on the ante-bellum South with owner's name penned in on FFEP, 423pp, profusely illustrated with extensive tables and charts, an amazing copy of this classic study of subsistence farming in the South

University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Collectible Depression-era sociological tract. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed along extremities, being well protected in clear mylar sleeve. Nice cover. Ex-libris plate to front flyleaf. Interior pages and plates are clean throughout. Binding is secure.