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Making catfish bait out of government boys : the fight against cattle ticks and the transformation of the yeoman South / Claire Strom.

Title: Making catfish bait out of government boys : the fight against cattle ticks and the transformation of the yeoman South / Claire Strom.
Author: Strom, Claire
Publication: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

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Description

xx, 297 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This first full-length study of the cattle tick eradication program in the United States offers a new perspective on the fate of the yeomanry in the twentieth-century South during a period when state and federal governments were both increasing and centralizing their authority. As Claire Strom relates the power struggles that complicated efforts to wipe out the Boophilus tick, she explains the motivations and concerns of each group involved, including large- and small-scale cattle farmers, scientists, and officials at all levels of government."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Environmental history and the American South

Uniform Title

Environmental history and the American South

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-287) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Paul S. Sutter -- Ch. 1. The Animals -- Ch. 2. The Scientists -- Ch. 3. The Yeomen -- Ch. 4. The Counties -- Ch. 5. The New South -- Ch. 6. The State -- Ch. 7. The Nation -- Ch. 8. The World.

ISBN

9780820327495 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820327492 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008050103

OCLC

276338599
SCSB-12170466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library