Rural Worlds Lost ? The American South, 1920?1960
The American South, 1920-1960
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Product details:
- Publisher MP?LSU LSU Press
- Date of Publication 30 December 1986
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780807113608
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages390 pages
- Size 228x152x23 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Jack Temple Kirby's massive and engaging study examines the rural southern world of the first half of the twentieth century, its collapse, and the resulting &&&8220;modernization&&&8221; of southern society. Rural Worlds Lost is the first book to thoroughly assess the profound changes modernization has wrought in the US South.
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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. Life for an Alabama tenant farmer in 1920 did not differ significantly from the life his grandfather led fifty years earlier. 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&&&39;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. The American South was the last region of the Western world to undergo this process, and Rural Worlds Lost is the first book to so thoroughly assess the profound changes modernization has wrought.
Kirby painstakingly charts the structural changes in agriculture that have occurred in the South and the effects these changes have had on people both at work and in the community. He is quick to note that there is not just one South but many, emphasising the South&&&39;s diversity not only in terms of race but also in terms of crop type and topography, and the resultant cultural differences of various areas of the region. He also skillfully compares southern life and institutions with those in other parts of the country, noting discrepancies and similarities.
Perhaps even more significant, however, is Kirby&&&39;s focus on the lives and communities of ordinary people and how they have been transformed by the effects of modernization. By using the oral histories collected by WPA interviewers, Kirby shows firsthand how rural southerners lived in the 1930s and what forces shaped their views on life. He assesses the impact of cash upon traditional rural economies, the revolutionary effects of New Deal programs on the rich and poor, and the forms and cultural results of migration. Kirby also treats home life, recording attitudes toward marriage, and sex, health maintenance, and class relationships, not to mention sports and leisure, moonshining, and the southerner&&&39;s longstanding love-hate relationship with the mule.
Rural Worlds Lost, based on exceptionally extensive research in archives throughout the South and in federal agricultural censuses, definitively charts the enormous changes that have taken place in the South in this century. Writing about Kirby&&&39;s previous book, Media-Made Dixie, Time Magazine noted Kirby&&&39;s ""scholarship of rare lucidity."" That same high level of scholarship, as well as an undeniable affection for the region, is abundantly evident in this new, path-breaking book.
