The New South, 1945-1980

The New South, 1945-1980 by Bartley, Numan V.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807119440.

Almost three decades after publication of the tenth volume of A History of the South - George Brown Tindalls The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 - Numan V. Bartley now presents Volume XI: a masterly synthesis of the regions 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.