Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War / Adrienne Monteith Petty.

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.

North Carolina--History--1865-.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Map of Southeastern North Carolina; Introduction; 1. On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War; 2. Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture; 3. Keep the Stock Law Off of Us: Defending the Open Range; 4. You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self-Sufficiency; 5. The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act; 6. From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal

7. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work8. These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s; 9. Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-993853-9

1-306-08225-0

OCLC:

862077200