In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Draw

This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolve

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This is the first book to assess the contribution of Southern agriculture to the Confederate war effort, to describe the damage that agriculture sustained durin

The success of the new settlements in what is now the United States depended on food. This book tells about the bounty that was here and how Europeans forged a