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The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South » Read Now
by John Solomon Otto, Jon L. Wakelyn. 180 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping the...
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Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping the South's colonial and antebellum frontiers. After examining the agricultural economy on the Southern seaboard during colonial times, Otto explains the economic and environmental forces that led to the expansion of upland and lowland agriculturalists across the trans-Appalachian South during the antebellum period.
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New York Farmers and the Market Revolution: Economic Behavior in the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1780-1830, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Thomas S. Wermuth. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...competitively produce and trade agricultural goods, farm families diversified...revolution." Department of History Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387...basis for the analysis of...
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Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 » Read Now
by John Solomon Otto, Jon L. Wakelyn. 171 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the transition from slavery to free labor after the war, and to recount the slow and painful process of rebuilding...
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This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained during the war, to analyze the transition from slavery to free labor after the war, and to recount the slow and painful process of rebuilding Southern agriculture by 1880. Synthesizing primary and secondary historical sources, Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 fills a crucial gap in our knowledge about the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction period.
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The Farmer's Last Frontier, Agriculture, 1860-1897 » Read Now
by Fred A. Shannon. 434 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Naturalists Club in Rural New York 278 A Traveling Agricultural Library 278 A Massachusetts Road of the 1890s...Laborers, Ten Years of Age or Over, 1870-1900 361...
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The Great Agricultural Transition: Crisis, Change, and Social Consequences of Twentieth Century US Farming, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now
by Linda Lobao, Katherine Meyer. 22 pgs.

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...that generated $1000 or more of agricultural sales in the past year. This farm...Columbus Davis JE. 1980. Capitalist agricultural development and the exploitation...Off...
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American Agriculture, 1899-1939: A Study of Output, Employment and Productivity (1942) » Read Now
by Harold Barger, Hans H. Landsberg. 444 pgs.

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...Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics, 1940 , Table 809...Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics, 1941 , Tables 458 and...U. S. Tariff Commission...
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Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 » Read Now
by Nathan Fine. 442 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Farmers' Movement, 1620-1920 » Read Now
by Carl C. Taylor. 519 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, did...not primarily a history; it is a sociological...body of recorded history. CONTENTS...5 The Agricultural Revolution...Colonial...
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The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995: A Study in Political Economy » Read Now
by Ronald E. Seavoy. 599 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The...
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A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society.
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The Origins of Black Sharecropping, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Wesley Allen Riddle. 19 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Plantations and Smallholdings: Comparative Perspectives from the World Cotton and Sugar Cane Economies, 1865-1939," Agricultural History, 58 (January 1984), 14-15. (21) Jay...
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"With the Aid of God and the F.S.A.": The Louisiana Farmers' Union and the African American Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Greta De Jong. 36 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Post-Reconstruction Louisiana Sugar Industry," Agricultural History 72 (spring 1998): 149. (11...Rudwick, CORE, 351. (148.) "History of Grand Marie Co-op, n.d., file...file...
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Japanese Legacy: Farming and Community Life in California's Santa Clara Valley » Read Now
by Timothy J. Lukes, Gary Y. Okihiro, Norman Y. Mineta. 162 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Santa Clara Valley to work in the agricultural sector, and their economic and social...the land. However, our immigrant history differs from that of the European...Reports...
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The Land Was Theirs: Jewish Farmers in the Garden State » Read Now
by Gertrude Wishnick Dubrovsky. 254 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Challenging prevalent stereotypes, Dubrovsky reveals a unique aspect of Jewish life in America. Although Jews have long been stereotyped as urban businesspeople and professionals, they have been successful agriculturalists since biblical times. In their more recent Eastern European history, 96...
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Challenging prevalent stereotypes, Dubrovsky reveals a unique aspect of Jewish life in America. Although Jews have long been stereotyped as urban businesspeople and professionals, they have been successful agriculturalists since biblical times. In their more recent Eastern European history, 96 percent were forced to live in a region known as the Pale of Settlement, where they were forbidden to own land and were restricted to certain occupations. The pernicious rumor that Jews would not work the soil was then widely broadcast. At the end of the 19th century, young Russian intellectuals were determined to disprove the misrepresentation from which all Jews suffered and prepared to become farmers in America.
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Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 » Read Now
by Katherine Jellison. 217 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Wallace presented such arguments, agricultural production was a significant component...0 19.2 0.1 0.7 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth...60.5 39.2 0.3 Source:...
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American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis » Read Now
by Peggy F. Barlett. 305 pgs.

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...in sociology, anthropology, history, and agricultural economics at the University...vitality of rural regions. The agricultural sector farms plus agribusinesses...as...
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The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy » Read Now
by John Opie. 258 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Kenneth A. Cook, "The Environmental Era of U.S. Agricultural Policy," Journal of Soil and Water Conservation...Plains: Which Farm Paradigm Does Irrigation Serve?"...