Robert Tracy Mckenzie

One South or Many?

Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a state-wide study of Tennessee's agricultural population between 1850 and 1880.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526111
• ISBN-10: 0521526116
• Artikelnr.: 21392304

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'The most honorable besness in the country': farm operations at the close of the Antebellum era
2. 'Honest industry and good recompense': wealth distribution and economic mobility on the eve of the Civil War
3. 'God only knows what will result from this war': wealth patterns among white farmers, 1860-80
4. 'Change and uncertainty may be anticipated': freedmen and the reorganisation of Tennessee agriculture
5. Agricultural change to 1880
Conclusion.