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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Southern Cultivator
Author: Southern Cultivator and Farming
Author: The Southern Cultivator and Industrial Journal
Author: History of Georgia Agriculture, 1732-1860
Author: James C. BonnerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Published in 1964, A History of Georgia Agriculture describes the early land and labor systems in the state. Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West. He also clearly shows how shortages of horses and implements, poor plowing techniques, and a lack of skill in tool mechanics spawned the cotton-slaves-mules trilogy of antebellum agriculture, which in turn led to land exhaustion and eventual emigration. By the 1850s the general southern desire for economic independence promoted diversification and such scientific farming techniques as crop rotation, contour plowing, and fertilization. Planting of pasture forage to improve livestock and hold soil was advocated and the teaching of agriculture in public schools was promoted. Contemporary descriptions of individual farms and plantations are interspersed to give a picture of day to day farming. Bonner presents a picture of the average Southern farmer of 1850 which is neither that of a landless hireling nor of the traditional planter, but of a practical man trying to make a living.
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
Author: Joseph P. ReidyPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807845523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, connecting global forces with the initiatives and reactions of ordinary southerners, black and white. Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago Joseph Reidy's detailed analysis of social and economic developments in central Georgia during and after slavery will take its place among the standard works on these subjects. Its discussions of the expansion of the cotton kingdom and of the changes after emancipation make it necessary reading for all concerned with southern and African-American history. Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester Successfully places the experience of one region's people into the larger theoretical context of world capitalist development and in the process challenges other scholars to do the same. Rural Sociology
The Origins of Southern Sharecropping
Author: Edward RoycePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904383
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Revised perspective on sharecropping.
Daniel Lee, Agriculturist
Author: CoulterPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Published in 1972, this biographical study examines Daniel Lee (1802–1890), an agriculturist who is considered to be a forefather to today's scientific farming. Lee dedicated himself the advancement of farming through the diversification of crops and the use of scientific methods. He was the editor of both the Genesse Farmer and the Southern Cultivator and wrote numerous articles about agricultural chemistry. Lee was appointed the first professor of agriculture at the University of Georgia, which solidified his importance in the agricultural world.
Mule South to Tractor South
Author: George B. EllenbergPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817315977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A study of how the mule became the major agricultural resource in the American South and was later displaced by the farm tractor.
Plants in the Civil War
Author: Judith SumnerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476691312
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Slavery was at the heart of the South's agrarian economy before and during the Civil War. Agriculture provided products essential to the war effort, from dietary rations to antimalarial drugs to raw materials for military uniforms and engineering. Drawing on a range of primary sources, this history examines the botany and ethnobotany of America's defining conflict. The author describes the diverse roles of cash crops, herbal medicine, subsistence agriculture and the diet and cookery of enslaved people.
The Journal of Southern History
Author: Wendell Holmes StephensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews."