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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865 - 1980 free ebook download

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Author(s):	Gilbert C. Fite

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0813101603
Pages:	273	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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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,
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