Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “The Most Honorable Besness in the Country”: Farm Operations at the Close of the Antebellum Era
- 2 “Honest Industry and Good Recompense”: Wealth Distribution and Economic Mobility on the Eve of the Civil War
- 3 “God Only Knows What Will Result from This War”: Wealth Patterns among White Farmers, 1860–1880
- 4 “Change and Uncertainty May Be Anticipated”: Freedmen and the Reorganization of Tennessee Agriculture
- 5 Agricultural Change to 1880
- Conclusion: One South or Many? Implications for the Nineteenth-century South
- Appendix A: Statistical Method and Sampling Technique
- Appendix B: Estimates of the Food Supply and the Extent of Self-sufficiency on Tennessee Farms
- Appendix C: Wholesale Price Data for Agricultural Commodities, 1859–1879
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “The Most Honorable Besness in the Country”: Farm Operations at the Close of the Antebellum Era
- 2 “Honest Industry and Good Recompense”: Wealth Distribution and Economic Mobility on the Eve of the Civil War
- 3 “God Only Knows What Will Result from This War”: Wealth Patterns among White Farmers, 1860–1880
- 4 “Change and Uncertainty May Be Anticipated”: Freedmen and the Reorganization of Tennessee Agriculture
- 5 Agricultural Change to 1880
- Conclusion: One South or Many? Implications for the Nineteenth-century South
- Appendix A: Statistical Method and Sampling Technique
- Appendix B: Estimates of the Food Supply and the Extent of Self-sufficiency on Tennessee Farms
- Appendix C: Wholesale Price Data for Agricultural Commodities, 1859–1879
- Index
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- One South or Many?Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994