Standing Their Ground
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-993852-0 (ISBN)
The transformation of agriculture was one of the most far-reaching developments of the modern era. In analyzing how and why this change took place in the United States, scholars have most often focused on Midwestern family farmers, who experienced the change during the first half of the twentieth century, and southern sharecroppers, swept off the land by forces beyond their control.
Departing from the conventional story, this book focuses on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era. It reveals that the transformation was more protracted and more contested than historians have understood it to be. Even though the number of farm owners gradually declined over the course of the century, the desire to farm endured among landless farmers, who became landowners during key moments of opportunity. Moreover, this book departs from other studies by considering all farm owners as a single class, rejecting the widespread approach of segregating black farm owners. The violent and restrictive political culture of Jim Crow regime, far from only affecting black farmers, limited the ability of all farmers to resist changes in agriculture.
By the 1970s, the vast reduction in the number of small farm owners had simultaneously destroyed a Southern yeomanry that had been the symbol of American democracy since the time of Thomas Jefferson, rolled back gains in landownership that families achieved during the first half century after the Civil War, and remade the rural South from an agrarian society to a site of global agribusiness.
Adrienne Monteith Petty is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She obtained her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, after which she taught at the City College of New York (CUNY). Her research is in the area of the post-Civil War history of the United States, with a special focus on southern history.
Contents ; Map of Southeastern North Carolina ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War ; Chapter 2: Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture ; Chapter 3: Keep the Stock Law Off Of Us: Defending the Open Range ; Chapter 4: You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self Sufficiency ; Chapter 5: The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act ; Chapter 6: From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal ; Chapter 7: Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work ; Chapter 8: These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s ; Chapter 9: Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.10.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-993852-0 / 0199938520 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-993852-0 / 9780199938520 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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