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Author Petty, Adrienne Monteith, 1971-

Title Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War / Adrienne Monteith Petty.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This work explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Map of Southeastern North Carolina; Introduction; 1. On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War; 2. Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture; 3. Keep the Stock Law Off of Us: Defending the Open Range; 4. You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self-Sufficiency; 5. The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act; 6. From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work8. These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s; 9. Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Subject Farmers -- North Carolina -- History.
Farmers.
North Carolina.
History.
Farms, Small -- North Carolina -- History.
Farms, Small.
Agriculture -- North Carolina -- History.
Agriculture.
North Carolina -- History -- 1865-
Chronological Term 1865-
Since 1865
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Petty, Adrienne Monteith, 1971- Standing their ground 9780199938520 (DLC) 2013009335 (OCoLC)841769280
ISBN 9780199938537 (electronic book)
0199938539 (electronic book)
9780199938520
0199938520