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