Tapping the Pines : The Naval Stores Industry in the American South /

The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine -- along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin -- constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores productio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Outland, Robert B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Naval stores industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Produits resiniers > Industrie > États-Unis (Sud) > Personnel.
Produits resiniers > Industrie > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Naval stores industry > Southern States > Employees.
Naval stores industry > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Origins of a naval stores economy
  • Turpentine boom
  • Life and labor in the pine forests
  • Suicidal harvest on the move
  • Industry challenges, old and new
  • Labor, forced and free
  • Government, friend and foe
  • Government to the rescue
  • Demise of an obsolete industry.

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