The emergence of the new South, 1913-1945.
Traces its transformation from an agrarian region to one of urban growth and booming industrialism, depicting a changing social and political climate and emphasizing the literary renaissance which produced such writers as William Faulkner and Thomas Wolfe.
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- Physical Description: xv, 807 pages. : illustrations, portraits. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: [Baton Rouge] : Louisiana State University Press, 1967.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 733-768) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | In the house of their fathers -- World War I: Southern horizons expand -- Normalcy and the Atlanta spirit -- Agriculture and the recurrent crisis -- Age of segregation -- South and the savage ideal -- Metamorphosis of progressivism -- Emergence of public services -- Congo of the Bozart -- When Southern labor stirred -- Depression and deliverance -- Transformation of agriculture -- Dilemmas of a colonial economy -- Uneven places: relief, welfare, and education -- Building unions in the South -- New directions in Negro life -- Southerners rediscover the South: regionalism and sectionalism -- Southern politics and the New Deal -- Tradition and transition: The Southern Renaissance -- World War II: the turbulent South. |
| Awards Note: | Lillian Smith Book Award, 1968 |
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| Subject: | Southern States > History. |
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