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Title The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 11, Agriculture and industry / Melissa Walker, agriculture section editor ; James C. Cobb, industry section editor ; Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 354 pages) : illustrations, map
Series The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
New encyclopedia of Southern culture.
Contents AGRICULTURE. Agriculture and rural life -- African American landowners -- Agribusiness -- Agricultural education -- Colonial farming -- Consumption and consumers -- Country stores -- Crops -- Diversification -- 19th century farm organizations -- Women's roles in foods and markets -- Garden patches -- Agriculture in the Southern global economy -- Good Roads Movement -- Mechanization -- Native American agriculture -- New Deal-era farmer organizations -- Part-time farming -- Plantations -- Rural life -- Rural-urgan migration -- Sharecropping and tenancy -- Soil and soil conservation -- Sustainable agriculture -- Women and agriculture
Agricultural cooperatives -- Antebellum agricultural societies -- Apples -- Aquaculture -- Boll weevil -- Cattle -- Christmas tree farming -- Citrus -- Communal farms -- Corn -- Cotton culture -- Dairy industry -- Farm Security Administration -- Fence/stock laws -- Fertilizer -- Forage crops -- Garvey movement -- Hog production -- Home extension services -- Horses and mules -- Insects and insecticides -- Seaman A. Knapp -- Migration labor -- Peaches peanuts -- Pecans -- Clarence Hamilton Poe -- Poultry -- "Progressive Farmer" -- Rice culture -- Rural Electrification Administration -- Rural free delivery -- Sears Roebuck Catalog -- Soybeans -- Sugar industry -- Flue-cured tobacco culture -- Truck farming -- Viticulture
INDUSTRY. Industry and commerce -- Antebellum industry -- Black business -- Civil rights and business -- South as "Colony" -- Expositions and World's Fairs -- Globalization -- Resistance to Industrialization -- Industrialization and change -- Industrialization in Appalachia -- Industrialization in the Piedmont -- Military and economy -- New South myth -- Sunbelt South -- Airline industry -- Atlanta as commercial center -- Automobile industry -- Banking -- Bulldozer revolution -- Casino gambling -- Chain and specialty stores -- Coal mining -- Coca-cola -- "De Bow's Review" -- Delta Airlines -- James B. Duke -- Henry Flagler -- Foreign industry -- Furniture industry -- Henry W. Grady -- William Gregg -- Insurance -- Liquor industry -- Mobile home industry -- Music industry -- Naval Stores -- Nuclear industry -- Oil industry -- Radio industry -- Railroad industry -- Research Triangle Park -- Savannah River site -- Southern Growth Policies Board -- J.P. Stevens and Company -- Textile industry -- Timber industry -- Tobacco industry -- Trucking industry -- Wal-Mart -- Walton, Sam M
Summary New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry
Notes One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Agriculture -- Southern States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
Industries -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Agriculture
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Economic history
Industries
SUBJECT Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Encyclopedias
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
History
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Walker, Melissa, 1962- editor.
Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947- editor.
Wilson, Charles Reagan, editor.
Thomas, James G., Jr., editor.
Abadie, Ann J., editor.
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, sponsoring body.
ISBN 9781469616698
1469616696
1469616688
9781469616681
Other Titles Agriculture and industry
OTHER TI Encyclopedia of Southern culture