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Author McKinley, Shepherd W., author

Title Stinking stones and rocks of gold : phosphate, fertilizer, and industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina / Shepherd W. McKinley
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource
Series New perspectives on the history of the South
New perspectives on the history of the South.
Contents Antecedents, precedents, and continuities, 1800-1865 -- The creation of industry and hope, 1865-1870 -- Land miners and hand mining, 1867-1884 -- River mining and reconstruction politics, 1869-1874 -- Convergence and the fertilizer industry, 1868-1884
Summary McKinley examines the role of phosphates in the economic, social and industrial changes in the South Carolina plantation economy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Phosphate industry -- South Carolina -- History
Phosphates -- South Carolina -- History
Fertilizers -- South Carolina
Industries -- South Carolina -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Economic history
Fertilizers
Industries
Phosphate industry
Phosphates
SUBJECT South Carolina -- Economic conditions
Subject South Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813048697
0813048699
1306407435
9781306407434
0813050065
9780813050065