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Author : George L. Robson
Release : 1979
Genre : Agriculture
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Book Synopsis Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War by : George L. Robson
Download or read book Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War written by George L. Robson. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Otto
Release : 1994-04-30
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 by : John Otto
Download or read book Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 written by John Otto. This book was released on 1994-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the transition from slavery to free labor after the war, and to recount the slow and painful process of rebuilding Southern agriculture by 1880. Synthesizing primary and secondary historical sources, Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 fills a crucial gap in our knowledge about the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction period.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Release : 2015-03-02
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Agriculture and the Confederacy by : R. Douglas Hurt
Download or read book Agriculture and the Confederacy written by R. Douglas Hurt. This book was released on 2015-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War. Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.
Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
Release : 1939
Genre : Agriculture
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Book Synopsis Salient Changes in Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War by : Bell Irvin Wiley
Download or read book Salient Changes in Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War written by Bell Irvin Wiley. This book was released on 1939. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert C. Fite
Release : 2021-10-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Cotton Fields No More by : Gilbert C. Fite
Download or read book Cotton Fields No More written by Gilbert C. Fite. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
