Stinking stones and rocks of gold : phosphate, fertilizer, and industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina /

McKinley, Shepherd W.,

Stinking stones and rocks of gold : phosphate, fertilizer, and industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina / Shepherd W. McKinley. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2014. - 1 online resource - New perspectives on the history of the South .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Antecedents, precedents, and continuities, 1800-1865 -- The creation of industry and hope, 1865-1870 -- Land miners and hand mining, 1867-1884 -- River mining and reconstruction politics, 1869-1874 -- Convergence and the fertilizer industry, 1868-1884.

McKinley examines the role of phosphates in the economic, social and industrial changes in the South Carolina plantation economy.



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Phosphate industry--History.--South Carolina
Phosphates--History.--South Carolina
Fertilizers--South Carolina.
Industries--History.--South Carolina


Electronic Books.

HD9585 / .S756 2014