Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold - Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina (Hardcover, New)

"A finely layered and important study that fills in gaps in the industrial history of the New South and especially low-country South Carolina."--Sidney Bland, author of "Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost " "Skillfully blurs the old, comfortable line between Old and New South economies and paints a nuanced picture of the new labor relations in the post-slavery era."--Charles Holden, author of "In the Great Maelstrom"
In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.
Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions."
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold" develops an overarching view of what can be considered one of many key factors in the birth of southern industry. This top-down, bottom-up history (business, labor, social, and economic) analyzes an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.

General

Imprint:	University Press of Florida
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Perspectives on the History of the South
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Shepherd W. McKinley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	240
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8130-4924-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-8130-4924-5
Barcode:	9780813049243

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