The New South, 1945-1980: The Story of the South's Modernization - Paperbackby Numan V. Bartley (Author) 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;