Materials for Research in the Agricultural History of the Confederacy
Title | Materials for Research in the Agricultural History of the Confederacy PDF eBook |
Author | Charles William Ramsdell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Agriculture and the Confederacy
Title | Agriculture and the Confederacy PDF eBook |
Author | R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2015-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469620014 |
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.
Agricultural History
Title | Agricultural History PDF eBook |
Author | University of California, Davis. Agricultural History Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Agricultural history |
ISBN |
References on Agricultural History as a Field for Research
Title | References on Agricultural History as a Field for Research PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Eugene Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
A Bibliography of the History of Agriculture in the United States
Title | A Bibliography of the History of Agriculture in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Eugene Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
A Guide for Courses in the History of American Agriculture
Title | A Guide for Courses in the History of American Agriculture PDF eBook |
Author | Everett Eugene Edwards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Miscellaneous Publication
Title | Miscellaneous Publication PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1930 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |