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; they 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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Michael KorejwoInformative0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very informative and interesting. Being an Alumnus I do ...By Gerald Shoemaker Jr.Very informative and interesting. Being an Alumnus I do feel the writer put too much emphasis on the early years.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy William S.Awesome school and a very good book.
