Agriculture and the Confederacy
Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South
By R. Douglas Hurt
364 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 2 maps, 4 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2000-8
Published: March 2015 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-2001-5
Published: March 2015 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4595-5
Published: March 2015
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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.
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R. Douglas Hurt is professor and head of the department of history at Purdue University.
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"An excellent study of an important but generally neglected aspect of the Civil War."-- Journal of American History
“A significant contribution to our understanding of both the problems plaguing southern agriculture and the reasons for the Confederacy’s defeat.”--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“Brilliant analysis. . . . After reading this masterful volume, Civil War scholars will need to reconsider and rewrite the history of the Confederacy”--Journal of Southern History
“Highly recommended.”--CHOICE
"An important book...Sure to stimulate additional scholarship on agriculture during the war."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
“An important addition to the historiography of the Civil War and the Confederacy. . . . A useful book for students of postbellum southern agriculture.”---North Carolina Historical Review