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Tapping the pines : the naval stores industry in the American South / Robert B. Outland III.
Lippincott Library HD9769.N33 U66 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Outland, Robert B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval stores industry--Southern States--History.
- Naval stores industry.
- Naval stores industry--Southern States--Employees.
- Employees.
- History.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Origins of a naval stores economy
- Turpentine boom
- Life and labor in the pine forests
- Suicidal harvest on the move
- Industry challenges, old and new
- Labor, forced and free
- Government, friend and foe
- Government to the rescue
- Demise of an obsolete industry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080712981X
- OCLC:
- 54960738
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