Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South (Civil War America)

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On this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture within the Confederate States of The united states. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was once a source of power that southerners believed would be sure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy’s military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations within the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the broader story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners–faced with hunger and privation all over the region–ransacked farms within the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations within the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they in any case realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted way past the end of the Civil War.

Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light at the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.

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