Agriculture and Industry

by Melissa Walker, Charles Reagan Wilson, James C. Cobb

Book Overview

Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced labor of enslaved blacks. After Reconstruction, the South became attractive to new industries lured by the region's ongoing commitment to low-wage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859095
• ISBN13: 9780807859094
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"