Standing Their Ground - Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War

Zusatztext Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society Informationen zum Autor Adrienne Monteith Petty is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She obtained her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, after which she taught at the City College of New York (CUNY). Her research is in the area of the post-Civil War history of the United States, with a special focus on southern history. Klappentext This book explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology. However, the antidemocratic character of the Jim Crow South weakened their resistance. Zusammenfassung This book explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology. However, the antidemocratic character of the Jim Crow South weakened their resistance.

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• Authors: Adrienne Monteith Petty, Adrienne Monteith (Assistant Professor of H Petty, Adrienne Monteith (Associate Professor of H Petty, Adrienne Monteith (Associate Professor of History Petty, Petty Adrienne Monteith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780190616731
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061673-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)