Books by Jack Temple Kirby

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 "modernization" of southern society. Rural Worlds Lost is the first book to thoroughly assess the profound changes modernization has wrought in the US South.

The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and insect infested and disease prone than other regions of the country. This title offers a personal recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. It explores various South's peoples and their landscapes.