Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz

Cultivating Success in the South

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781107054110
• ISBN-10: 1107054117
• Artikelnr.: 40561171

Autorenporträt

Louis Ferleger is Professor of History and chair of the History Department at Boston University. He is co-editor, co-author or editor of six books, including Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century and Slavery, Secession, and Southern History. He is series editor of the Historians in Conversation series published by the University of South Carolina Press and has co-edited a special issue of The Annals devoted to globalization. He has been awarded many fellowships and grants, including two awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an Earhart Fellowship, and a Twentieth Century Fund research grant.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contesting the myth of the backward Southern farmer
1. Different crops, different cultures: the evolution of three Georgia counties
2. Land, households, and race in the Georgia Piedmont: the big picture
3. Production in the Piedmont: more than just cotton
4. The material world of Piedmont farmers
5. Investing for success in the Piedmont
Conclusion.