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Agriculture and the Confederacy : Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South /

"In this comprehensive and innovative Civil War history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America, the backbone of the Southern economy, which, alongside military strength, Southerners believed would ensure their independence. In a sweeping...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hurt, R. Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Southern optimism
  • Confederate apprehension
  • Western troubles
  • Eastern realities
  • Western losses
  • Eastern hard times
  • Western collapse
  • Last things
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix : agricultural prices, 1860.