This classic examination of the Southern hill-country surveys the history, politics, religion, economy, and folkways of the region as the author knew them in the Great Depression and World War II.
H.C. Nixon was born in Merrellton, Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1886. A faculty member at the University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, Nixon was a contributor to the "Agrarian manifesto," I'll Take My Stand, in 1930, and was the author of Forty Acres and Steel Mules (1938) and editor of the Vanderbilt University Press. Lower Piedmont Country was first published in 1946.
