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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.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
©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.
Note "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Note Print version record.
Summary New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry.
Subject Agriculture -- Southern States -- History -- Encyclopedias.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
Industries -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Encyclopedias.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Agriculture. (OCoLC)fst00801355
Agriculture -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00801415
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Industries. (OCoLC)fst00971852
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Genre/Form Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Author Walker, Melissa, 1962-
Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Added Title Agriculture and industry
Other Form: Print version: Agriculture and industry 9780807832400 (DLC) 2008700057 (OCoLC)221141732
ISBN 9781469616698 (electronic bk.)
1469616696 (electronic bk.)
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