Pharsalia - An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880

Informationen zum Autor LYNN A. NELSON is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. Klappentext Pharsalia! a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains! is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the papers left behind by the Massie family! Pharsalia's owners! this study demonstrates how white southern planters relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued agrarian independence. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the Massie family's records, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Nelson, Lynn a Nelson, Lynn A. Nelson, Lynn A./ Sutter Nelson
• Assisted by: Paul Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780820334165
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3416-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Environmental History; Environmental History; Environmental History and the American South
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Landwirtschaft, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General