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Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War /
This work explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Map of Southeastern North Carolina; Introduction; 1. On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War; 2. Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture; 3. Keep the Stock Law Off of Us: Defending the Open Range; 4. You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self-Sufficiency; 5. The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act; 6. From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal
- 7. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work8. These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s; 9. Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z