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Agriculture and industry
Title:
Agriculture and industry
Author:
Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-
ISBN:
9781469616698
Physical Description:
1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations, map.
Series:
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 11
New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 11.
General Note:
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| S445 .A47 2008 | 1029484-1001 | Ebook Central | Searching... |
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