Rural worlds lost : the American South, 1920-1960
Jack Temple Kirby (Author)
"Immediately following the Civil War, and for many years thereafter, southerners proclaimed a 'New' South, implying not only the end of slavery but also the beginning of a new era of growth, industrialization, and prosperity. Time has shown that those declarations--at least in terms of progress and prosperity--were premature by several decades. In fact, the South remained primarily a land of poor farming folks until the 1940s. Only then, and after World War II, did the real New South of industrial growth and urban development begin to emerge. Jack Temple Kirby's massive and engaging study examines the rural southern world of the first half of this century, its collapse, and the resulting "modernization" of southern society
Print Book, English, 1987
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1987