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Cultivating success in the South : farm households in the postbellum era
- Title
- Cultivating success in the South : farm households in the postbellum era / Louis A. Ferleger, Boston University, John D. Metz, Library of Virginia.
- Author
- Ferleger, Lou.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Metz, John D.
- Description
- xiii, 206 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and livelihoods. Relying on primary documents, including probate inventories, tax lists, state and federal census data, and estate sale results, this study seeks to understand the variables that prompted farm households to assume greater risk in hopes of success as well as those factors that stood in the way of progress. While there are few projects of this type for the late nineteenth century, and fewer still for the New South, the findings challenge the notion of farmers as overly conservative consumers and call into question traditional views of conspicuous consumption as a key indicator of wealth and status"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies on the American South
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies on the American South.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5558
- ISBN
- 9781107054110
- 1107054117
- 9781107651173
- 1107651174
- 1139990705
- 9781139990707
- LCCN
- 2014001856
- OCLC
- 875055700
- Author
- Ferleger, Lou.
- Title
- Cultivating success in the South : farm households in the postbellum era / Louis A. Ferleger, Boston University, John D. Metz, Library of Virginia.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies on the American SouthCambridge studies on the American South.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Metz, John D.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5558