Ersatz in the Confederacy : shortages and substitutes on the southern homefront / by Mary Elizabeth Massey ; with a new introduction by Barbara L. Bellows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massey, Mary Elizabeth.

Contributor:

Bellows, Barbara L., writer of introduction.

Institute for Southern Studies.

University of South Carolina. Institute for Southern Studies.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Southern classics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.

Confederate States of America.

Substitute products.

Economic history.

United States--Confederate States of America.

American Civil War.

Food Supply.

History, 19th Century.

Southern States.

Medical Subjects:

American Civil War.

Food Supply.

History, 19th Century.

Southern States.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xxv, [3], 233, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

Contents:

I. The Problem of Supplies

II. Causes of Shortages

III. Governmental Policies

IV. Food and Drink

V. Clothing

VI. Housing and Household Goods

VII. Drugs and Medicine

VIII. Transportation, Industry, & Agriculture

IX. The Little Things of Life

X. The Balance Sheet.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South Carolina."

Originally published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1952.

Contains preface to first edition (pages xxiii-xxv).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0872498778

9780872498778

OCLC:

26300139

Publisher Number:

ZBWT00471299