Cotton Fields No More (eBook)

Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980

Gilbert C. Fite (Autor)

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2014
296 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-5048-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Gilbert C. Fite is Richard B. Russell Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of American Farmers: The New Minority, Beyond the Fencerows: A History of Farmland Industries Inc., 1929–1978 and other books.

Inhalt

Descent 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2015
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives on the South
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives on the South
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives on the South
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w halftones, 6 tables
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: agriculture in the southern united states • american farm life • commercial agriculture • farming and mechanization • Great Depression • history of agricultural economics • history of american agriculture • monocultures and agriculatural • reconstruction era farmers • rural southern history • southern farmers
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-5048-5 / 0813150485
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-5048-2 / 9780813150482