Almost three decades after publication of the tenth volume of A
History of the South -- George Tindall's The Emergence of the New
South, 1913--1945 -- Numan V. Bartley now presents Volume XI: a
masterly synthesis of the region's most complex years to date. From
the close of World War II to the end of the seventies, the South
underwent changes of such a radical nature and such tumultuous
process -- from rural orientation to urban; from segregated society
to racially commingled; from poverty-saturated economy to
positively booming Sunbelt -- that the contrast between 1945 and
1980 almost defies cogent explanation. Bartley, however, meets that
challenge, illuminating the intervening years both individually and
collectively within one monumental work.
In a narrative that exhibits balance, clarity, and objectivity,
Bartley traces developments in the political, economic, religious,
cultural, and social realms of southern life. He follows the rise
and fall of postwar liberalism, the role of the Dixiecrats, and the
resurgence of southern conservatism. He discusses the depopulation
of the countryside, the growth of urban areas, and the expansion of
industry and services?and how these changes affected the way
southerners lived their lives, earned their livelihoods, and
interpreted the world around them.
Here, perhaps for the first time in one volume, is the complete
civil rights story. The movements both for black civil rights and
for women's rights, Bartley shows, contributed to and benefited
from the spread of modernist culture in the region. One effect of
that culture was the dissolution of restrictive social norms and
the furtherance of an individualism oriented toward
self-fulfillment and self-achievement.
In his Afterword, Bartley offers an interpretative overview of
events and also identifies trends since 1980. His Bibliographical
Essay is a testimony to his superb command of the material of the
period; it could stand alone as one of the finest available guides
to primary and secondary sources on the modern South.
Long awaited, The New South, 1945--1980 is a feat of historical
detail and summation that will become the essential resource on the
South's recent past.
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