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New Perspectives on the South Ser.: Cotton Fields No More : Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 by Gilbert C. Fite (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Publication Date: 2009-11-11. Language: English. Number of Pages: 296. Weight: 0.96 lbs. ISBN10: 0813101603. Publisher: University Press of Kentucky.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
ISBN-100813101603
ISBN-139780813101606
eBay Product ID (ePID)102870908
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCotton Fields No more : Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
SubjectUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Social History, Industries / Agribusiness, Agriculture / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorGilbert C. Fite
Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
SeriesNew Perspectives on the South Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN84-007439
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.1/0975
Table Of ContentDescent into Poverty, 1865-1900 Down on the Farm before World War I Salvation through Organization and Politics The Gospel of Diversification, Science, and Efficiency, 1870-1914 Southern Farmers from War to Depression The Great Depression Strikes Crisis, Frustration, and Change in the Late 1930s Southern Farmers and World War II Modernization Comes to Southern Farms Farmers Left Behind Problems and Prospects in the Agricultural South
SynopsisNo 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.
LC Classification NumberHD1773.A5F58 1984
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