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.