Agriculture and the Confederacy (eBook)

Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South

R. Douglas Hurt (Autor)

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2015
364 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2001-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War.Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.

Autor

R. Douglas Hurt is professor and head of the department of history at Purdue University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 2 maps, 4 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: agricultural impressments • agricultural prices during the Civil War • agriculture in the Confederacy • army food supply • beef supply during the Civil War • black farm labor • black plantation labor • black women in southern agriculture • bread riots • civilian food supply • contract agricultural labor • cotton burning • cotton diplomacy • cotton planters during the Civil War • crop loan program • currency in the Confederacy • Farming in the Confederacy • food prices during the Civil War • Freedmen's Bureau • glanders during the Civil war • grain production during the Civil War • hog production during the Civil War • livestock disease during the Civil War • livestock diseases during the Civil War • livestock production during the Civil War • money in the Confederacy • railroads during the Civil War • rice planters during the Civil War • sharecropping • slave prices • slave valuations • sugar planters during the Civil War • tax-in-kind • tobacco during the Civil War • trading with the enemy • white women in southern agriculture • women in agriculture
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2001-4 / 1469620014
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2001-5 / 9781469620015