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This first book-length examination of cultural change in the Georgia Pine Belt challenges the conventional view of this area as an unchanging economic backwater by examining its postbellum evolution from a self-sufficient economy to one largely dependent upon a single commercial crop - cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape.
Mark V. Wetherington's in-depth study sheds new light on the region's socioeconomic history and encourages a closer examination of post-Civil War change throughout the southern Pine Belt.
Mark V. Wetherington's in-depth study sheds new light on the region's socioeconomic history and encourages a closer examination of post-Civil War change throughout the southern Pine Belt.
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Mark V. Wetherington is director of the Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
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- PublisherUniv Tennessee Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0870498266
- ISBN 13 9780870498268
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia
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University of Tennesee, Knoxville Tennessee
(1994)
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ISBN 13: 9780870498268
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. VF/VF/1st ed. stated. This first book length examination of cultural change in the Georgia Pine Belt challenges the conventional view of this area as an unchanging ecomonic backwater by examining its postbellum evolution from a self-sufficient economy to one largely dependent upon a single commerical crop--cotton. The demise of forest products industries during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area depentdent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system with a generation. Book and Jacket Condition are Very Fine; as new. 392pp. First edition so stated. Notes, bibliography, index. Black and white photos. Jacket covered with a removable mylar sleeve. Seller Inventory # 0021262
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