Agriculture and industry / / Melissa Walker, agriculture section editor ; James C. Cobb, industry section editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464418303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-4696-1668-8; 1-4696-1669-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Collana: The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; ; v. 11
• Altri autori (Persone): CobbJames C <1947-> (James Charles); WalkerMelissa <1962->
• Disciplina: 975.003
• Soggetti: Agriculture - Economic aspects - Southern States; Agriculture - Southern States - History; Industries - Southern States; Electronic books.; Southern States Economic conditions Encyclopedias
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry