Rural worlds lost: The American South, 1920-1960 - Hardcover

Kirby, Jack Temple

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080711300X ISBN 13: 9780807113004

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Kirby, Jack Temple

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Temple Kirby is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His Media-Made Dixie was also published by LSU Press.

From Library Journal:

Kirby's book is an impressive scholarly study and analysis of the collapse of the rural South, its economic systems and ways of life, and the resulting modernization of Southern society. It took Kirby seven years to research the book, and he traveled some twenty thousand miles, from Washington, D.C., to Texas, collecting data. He deals thoroughly with three aspects of the South's transformation: structural change in agriculture, the effects of structural change at work and in the communities, and rural-urban migration. Kirby's methodology and research make the book a welcome addition to Southern literature. Recommended for academic and research libraries. Ron Chepesiuk, Winthrop Coll. Lib., Rock Hill, S.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 080711300X
• ISBN 13: 9780807113004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390