Record details

• ISBN: 0807832405
• ISBN: 0807859095
• ISBN: 9780807832400
• ISBN: 9780807859094
• Physical Description: xviii, 354 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
• Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Agricultural cooperatives -- Antebellum agricultural societies -- Apples -- Aquaculture -- Boll weevil -- Cattle -- Christmas tree farming -- Citrus -- Communal farms -- Corn -- Cotton culture -- Dairy industry -- Farm Security Administration -- Fence/stock laws -- Fertilizer -- Forage crops -- Garvey movement -- Hog production -- Home extension services -- Horses and mules -- Insects and insecticides -- Seaman A. Knapp -- Migration labor -- Peaches peanuts -- Pecans -- Clarence Hamilton Poe -- Poultry -- "Progressive Farmer" -- Rice culture -- Rural Electrification Administration -- Rural free delivery -- Sears Roebuck Catalog -- Soybeans -- Sugar industry -- Flue-cured tobacco culture -- Truck farming -- Viticulture --

AGRICULTURE. Agriculture and rural life -- African American landowners -- Agribusiness -- Agricultural education -- Colonial farming -- Consumption and consumers -- Country stores -- Crops -- Diversification -- 19th century farm organizations -- Women's roles in foods and markets -- Garden patches -- Agriculture in the Southern global economy -- Good Roads Movement -- Mechanization -- Native American agriculture -- New Deal-era farmer organizations -- Part-time farming -- Plantations -- Rural life -- Rural-urgan migration -- Sharecropping and tenancy -- Soil and soil conservation -- Sustainable agriculture -- Women and agriculture --

INDUSTRY. Industry and commerce -- Antebellum industry -- Black business -- Civil rights and business -- South as "Colony" -- Expositions and World's Fairs -- Globalization -- Resistance to Industrialization -- Industrialization and change -- Industrialization in Appalachia -- Industrialization in the Piedmont -- Military and economy -- New South myth -- Sunbelt South -- Airline industry -- Atlanta as commercial center -- Automobile industry -- Banking -- Bulldozer revolution -- Casino gambling -- Chain and specialty stores -- Coal mining -- Coca-cola -- "De Bow's Review" -- Delta Airlines -- James B. Duke -- Henry Flagler -- Foreign industry -- Furniture industry -- Henry W. Grady -- William Gregg -- Insurance -- Liquor industry -- Mobile home industry -- Music industry -- Naval Stores -- Nuclear industry -- Oil industry -- Radio industry -- Railroad industry -- Research Triangle Park -- Savannah River site -- Southern Growth Policies Board -- J. P. Stevens and Company -- Textile industry -- Timber industry -- Tobacco industry -- Trucking industry -- Wal-Mart -- Walton, Sam M.

Target Audience Note:

9-12 Medialog, Inc.

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Agriculture > Economic aspects > Southern States > Encyclopedias.
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Genre:

Encyclopedias.

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