TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fite,Gilbert Courtland
TI  - Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
T2  - New Perspectives on the South
SN  - 9780813150482
AV  - HD1773 .C688 1984
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Editor's Preface; Preface; 1. Descent into Poverty, 1865-1900; 2. Down on the Farm before World War I; 3. Salvation through Organization and Politics; 4. The Gospel of Diversification, Science, and Efficiency, 1870-1914; 5. Southern Farmers from War to Depression; 6. The Great Depression Strikes; 7. Crisis, Frustration, and Change in the Late 1930s; 8. Southern Farmers and World War II; 9. Modernization Comes to Southern Farms; 10. Farmers Left Behind; 11. Problems and Prospects in the Agricultural South; Appendix: Statistical Data on Southern Agriculture, 1880-1980Notes; Comment on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; 2; b
N2  - No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture.Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group
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