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

by R. Douglas Hurt

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469620006
• ISBN13: 9781469620008
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"