The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865
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Using Danville, Virginia, which was dominated by planter-entrepreneurs and tobacco, as an example, Siegel refutes traditional arguments that the South's retarded development was caused by the Civil War. Comparing Danville and it surrounding county with a similar county in Virginia, a successful wheat and dairy county, he demonstrates that the Danville region's monocultures, products of the South's peculiar climate and soils, were responsible for its...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807817279
ISBN13:9780807817278
Release Date:March 2011
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
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