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

    Agriculture and the Confederacy – Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South by Hurt, R. Douglas;

    Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South

    Series: Civil War America;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher MP–NCA Uni of North Carolina
    • Date of Publication 2 March 2015
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781469620008
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages400 pages
    • Size 233x154x25 mm
    • Weight 549 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 2 maps, 4 tables
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    Short description:

    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.

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    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. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region, ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley, and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta--finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War.

    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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