The Effect of the Civil War on the Agriculture of the South
Author : Betty J. Tompkins
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Betty J. Tompkins
Publisher :
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : History
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This book provides a perspective into the past that few students and historians of the Civil War have considered: agriculture during the Civil War as a key element of power. The Civil War revolutionized the agricultural labor system in the South, and it had dramatic effects on farm labor in the North relating to technology. Agriculture also was an element of power for both sides during the Civil War—one that is often overlooked in traditional studies of the conflict. R. Douglas Hurt argues that Southerners viewed the agricultural productivity of their region as an element of power that would enable them to win the war, while Northern farmers considered their productivity not only an economic benefit to the Union and enhancement of their personal fortunes but also an advantage that would help bring the South back into the Union. This study examines the effects of the Civil War on agriculture for both the Union and the Confederacy from 1860 to 1865, emphasizing how agriculture directly related to the war effort in each region—for example, the efforts made to produce more food for military and civilian populations; attempts to limit cotton production; cotton as a diplomatic tool; the work of women in the fields; slavery as a key agricultural resource; livestock production; experiments to produce cotton, tobacco, and sugar in the North; and the adoption of new implements.
Author : Erin Stewart Mauldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197563449
Unredeemed Land examines the ways the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves reconfigured the South's natural landscape, revealing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.
Author : William Chandler Bagley
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Patrick Karl O'Brien
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
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This is a critical survey of contemporary historical research into the connection between the American Civil War and the long term Economic Growth of the United States. The central focus is on the methods used by economic historians to quantify the economic effects of drastic changes in taxation, government borrowing, and military expenditure, the destruction of human and physical capital, and the demise of slavery, which resulted from the war.
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1469620014
In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War. Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.
Author : Charles S. Aiken
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801873096
Tracing the geographical changes in plantation agriculture and the plantation regions after 1865, Aiken shows how the altered landscape of the South has led many to the false conclusion that the plantation has vanished. In fact, he explains, while certain regions of the South have reverted to other uses, the cotton plantation survives in a form that is, in many ways, remarkably similar to that of its antebellum predecessors.
Author : Paul Wallace Gates
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Agriculture
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"The author evaluates the agricultural potential of the North and the South and compares the problems and achievements of farmers of the two sections throughout the struggle."--Jacket.
Author : John Otto
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1994-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
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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.
Author : Adam Wesley Dean
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 146961992X
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land's productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean's study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a "civilizing" mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.