Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960

by Jack Temple Kirby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807113603
• ISBN13: 9780807113608
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"