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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
Current price: $35.00
Barnes and Noble
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
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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 of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts.
Based largely upon primary sources,
will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.