عنوان

One South or many? :

0521462703

9780521462709

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One South or many? :

[Book]

plantation belt and upcountry in Civil War-era Tennessee /

Robert Tracy McKenzie.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1994.

x, 213 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Vanderbilt University).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral -- Vanderbilt University).

"The Most Honorable Besness in the Country": Farm Operations at the Close of the Antebellum Era -- "Honest Industry and Good Recompense": Wealth Distribution and Economic Mobility on the Eve of the Civil War -- "God Only Knows What Will Result from This War": Wealth Patterns among White Farmers, 1860-1880 -- "Change and Uncertainty May Be Anticipated": Freedmen and the Reorganization of Tennessee Agriculture -- Agricultural Change to 1880 -- One South or Many? Implications for the Nineteenth-century South -- Statistical Method and Sampling Technique -- Estimates of the Food Supply and the Extent of Self-sufficiency on Tennessee Farms -- Wholesale Price Data for Agricultural Commodities, 1859-1879.

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This book is a statewide study of Tennessee's agricultural population between 1850 and 1880. Relying upon samples of census data as well as plantation accounts, Freedmen's Bureau Records, and the Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires, the author provides the first systematic comparison of the socioeconomic bases of plantation and nonplantation areas both before and immediately after the Civil War. Although the study applauds scholars' growing appreciation of southern diversity during the nineteenth century, it argues that recent scholarship both oversimplifies distinctions between Black Belt and Upcountry and exaggerates the socioeconomic heterogeneity of the South as a whole. It also challenges several largely unsubstantiated assumptions concerning the postbellum reorganization of southern agriculture, particularly those regarding the impoverishment of southern whites and the immobilization and economic repression of southern freedmen.

Agriculture-- Economic aspects-- Tennessee-- History-- 19th century.

Farms, Small-- Tennessee-- History-- 19th century.

Plantations-- Tennessee-- History-- 19th century.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)-- Tennessee.

Agriculture-- Economic aspects.

Agriculture-- Tennessee-- History-- 19th century.

Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.

Bevölkerung

Bevolking.

Economic history.

Farms, Small.

Geschichte 1850-1880.

Landbevölkerung

Ländlicher Raum

Plantages.

Plantations.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Reconstruction-- United States-- 19th century.

Social conditions

Soziale Situation

Tennessee, Economic conditions.

Tennessee, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Tennessee, Social conditions.

Tennessee, Economic conditions.

Tennessee, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.

Tennessee, Social conditions.

Tennessee

Tennessee, Economic conditions, 19th century.

Tennessee, Social conditions, 19th century.

Tennessee.

United States.

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McKenzie, Robert Tracy.

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