Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
- ISBN-10
- 081318469X
- ISBN-13
- 9780813184692
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-10-21
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Author
- Gilbert C. Fite
Description
No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2014-07-11
- 296 pages
- Ebook
- University Press of Kentucky
Similar books
-
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
By Gilbert C. FiteCotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
-
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917
By Stephen CresswellIt explores the reasons Mississippi was not more successful in urbanizing, in industrializing, and in reducing its reliance on cotton. The volume closes by looking at events that would move Mississippi closer to the national mainstream.
-
From Cotton Fields to Mission Fields: The Anna Knight Story
By Dorothy Knight MarshAnna Knight. is was in the spring of 1891. No one in the entire county got as much mail! All sorts of books and papers were sent, such as Bualo Bill, Wild Bill, Jesse James, Peck's Boy and many es, Peck's Boy es, Peck's Boy others. ere ...
-
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow
By Neil R. McMillenAlexander Barron , oral history , March 11 , 1976 , JSU . 9. ... has called Fairley's status “ unique ” among black forestry workers and suggests that his good fortune owed much to a close friendship with a local white lumber baron .
-
How I Got Out of the Cotton Fields: Lessons on Life, Love, and Survival
By Raymon E. Crawford, Raymon E Crawford Ed D, Jackie S. HendersonThis story of a struggle is creatively told. Raymon takes the reader on a vicarious journey to the cotton fields of North Carolina, many of us recall, as he wishes, our on cotton fields- we are inspired!
-
The State of Disunion: Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship
By Nicole Mellow... Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865–1980 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), esp. ch. 10. 88 Fite, Cotton Fields No More, 208–209. 89 Alston and Ferrie, Southern Paternalism, ch. 6. 90 See, for example, Bruce ...
-
The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
By William D. Bryan110. R. D. Doggett, “The Conservation of Our Natural Resources,” Aurora 24, no. 6 (March 1910): 3. 111. Cobb, “Beyond Planters,” 59. 112. Tindall, Emergence, 233, 223–53; Cobb, “Beyond Planters,” 59, 56–60. See also George B. Tindall, ...
-
African American Environmental Thought: Foundations
By Kimberly K. SmithAfrican American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to...
-
Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir
By Janis F. KearneyThe author describes her life as one of seventeen children of sharecroppers growing up in Arkansas and her journey to the White House as the diarist to President Bill Clinton.
-
The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History
By Jeannie Whayne... Cotton in Soviet Central Asia , 1929–32 ” Environmental History 21 , no . 3 ( July 2016 ) : 442-466 , https://doi ... Fields No More : Southern Agriculture , 1865-1980 ( Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 1984 ) . 49. Donald ...