“The Social Origins of the Urban South makes a contribution that can further the valuable merging of history, sociology, and the regional studies subfield of cultural anthropology.” — American Journal of Sociology
“A compelling study of the complex interplay between city and country during four critical decades in which rural southerners faced the challenges of modernization. . . . deeply researched and carefully argued.” — Journal of Southern History
“The term 'rural to urban migration' becomes a multi-layered story of ambition and desire for independence in this concise and illuminating historical study. . . . There is much to use and celebrate in this valuable history.” — Contemporary Sociology
“ Kyriakoudes’s attention to migration is well taken and advances our knowledge of the urban South and its rural hinterland. This emphasis should inform future regional studies of southern urbanization.” — Journal of American History
“Kyriakoudes is a thoughtful scholar. . . . The Social Origins of the Urban South [is] a pleasure to read and a rich text with which to work.” — Urban Geography
“Kyriakoudes’s work is a model of how to integrate social, cultural, commercial, and migration history.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly
“An impressively constructed volume. . . . By bridging the histories of urban and agricultural history while dabbling in gender, race, labor, and other sub-disciplines, Kyriakoudes has made a valuable contribution to a number of fields. The author has combined thorough research with lucid, largely jargon-free writing.” — H-Net
“A welcome effort.” — Southern Cultures
“A rigorously argued and lucidly written study on an extremely important but under-explored aspect of southern history: the role of migration in the urbanization process in the New South. With its close attention to both the rural and the urban dimensions of this process, Kyriakoudes’s well-researched and broadly interdisciplinary study represents a breakthrough in the literature in southern urban history. A very impressive debut.” — Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
