Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys - The Fight Against Cattle Ticks Transformation of Yeoman South

This first full-length study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States offers a new perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority.

Info autore

CLAIRE STROM is Rapetti-Trunzo Professor of History at Rollins College and editor of the journal Agricultural History. She is the author of Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West.

Riassunto

This first full-length study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States offers a new perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Claire Strom
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Sutter (Editore)
• Editore: The University of Georgia Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780820336442
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3644-2
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Environmental History; Environmental History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Agricoltura, giardinaggio; silvicoltura, pesca, alimentazione