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Agriculture and the Confederacy - Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,449
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Agriculture and the Confederacy - Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South (Paperback): R. Douglas Hurt

Agriculture and the Confederacy - Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South (Paperback)

R. Douglas Hurt

Series: Civil War America

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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--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.

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Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Civil War America
Release date: 2015
Authors: R. Douglas Hurt
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2000-8
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
LSN: 1-4696-2000-6
Barcode: 9781469620008

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