Standing Their Ground

Autor

Adrienne Monteith Petty

Editura

Oxford University Press

An publicare

2017

Nr. Pagini

296

ISBN

9780190616731

Categorii

Istorie Științe Umaniste Stiinte Istorie Regionala Si Nationala Istoria Americii

Descriere

This book explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology. However, the antidemocratic character of the Jim Crow South weakened their resistance.