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Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War / Adrienne Monteith Petty.
LIBRA S451.N8 P48 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petty, Adrienne Monteith, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmers--North Carolina--History.
- Farmers.
- Farms, Small--North Carolina--History.
- Farms, Small.
- Agriculture--North Carolina--History.
- Agriculture.
- History.
- North Carolina--History--1865-.
- North Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War 13
- 2 Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture 29
- 3 Keep the Stock Law Off of Us: Defending the Open Range 55
- 4 You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self-Sufficiency 75
- 5 The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act 99
- 6 From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal 125
- 7 Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work 147
- 8 These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s 163
- 9 Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199938520
- 0199938520
- OCLC:
- 841769280
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