Cotton Fields No More : Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 / Gilbert C. Fite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fite, Gilbert Courtland, 1918-

Series:

New perspectives on the South.

New Perspectives on the South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Southern States--History.

Agriculture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture.Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Editor's Preface; Preface; 1. Descent into Poverty, 1865-1900; 2. Down on the Farm before World War I; 3. Salvation through Organization and Politics; 4. The Gospel of Diversification, Science, and Efficiency, 1870-1914; 5. Southern Farmers from War to Depression; 6. The Great Depression Strikes; 7. Crisis, Frustration, and Change in the Late 1930s; 8. Southern Farmers and World War II; 9. Modernization Comes to Southern Farms; 10. Farmers Left Behind; 11. Problems and Prospects in the Agricultural South

Appendix: Statistical Data on Southern Agriculture, 1880-1980Notes; Comment on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813184692

081318469X

9780813150482

0813150485

OCLC:

654436377