| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.5

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Canada and the United States

Mary S. Hoffschwelle. Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community: Reformers, Schools, and Homes in Tennessee, 1900–1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 1998. Pp. xii, 233. $32.00.

Even as they attacked the evils produced by industrialization and urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers in the United States collectively known as Progressives recognized that life in rural America—which they believed to be the source of beneficial American values—was deteriorating. Rural-to-urban migration threatened to denude the countryside and make urban reform efforts all that much harder. In the American South, shrinking farm size, an increase in tenancy, the collapse of the farmers' political revolt, and even bleaker prospects for African-American farmers prompted Progressives to attempt to improve rural life and to keep farmers from abandoning the countryside for the city. . . .

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