The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910: 1860-1910

by Mark V. Wetherington

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This first book-length examination of the Georgia Pine Belt challenges the conventional view of this area as an unchanging economic backwater by examining its postbellum evolution from an independent agricultural economy to one entirely dependent upon a single unstable crop: cotton. Before the Civil War, the Georgia Piney Woods region easily supported a population of mostly self-sufficient yeomen and livestock herders. After the war, a variety...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0870498266

ISBN13:9780870498268

Release Date:October 1994

Publisher:Univ Tennessee Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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