Cultivating Success in the South

Farm Households in the Postbellum Era

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Business & Finance
Cover of the book Cultivating Success in the South by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz ISBN: 9781139986083
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: July 28, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
ISBN: 9781139986083
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 28, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and livelihoods. Relying on primary documents, including probate inventories, tax lists, state and federal census data, and estate sale results, this study seeks to understand the variables that prompted farm households to assume greater risk in hopes of success as well as those factors that stood in the way of progress. While there are few projects of this type for the late nineteenth century, and fewer still for the New South, the findings challenge the notion of farmers as overly conservative consumers and call into question traditional views of conspicuous consumption as a key indicator of wealth and status.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and livelihoods. Relying on primary documents, including probate inventories, tax lists, state and federal census data, and estate sale results, this study seeks to understand the variables that prompted farm households to assume greater risk in hopes of success as well as those factors that stood in the way of progress. While there are few projects of this type for the late nineteenth century, and fewer still for the New South, the findings challenge the notion of farmers as overly conservative consumers and call into question traditional views of conspicuous consumption as a key indicator of wealth and status.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book The Cratylus of Plato by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Environmental Expertise by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Soils by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Brownian Models of Performance and Control by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book The Politics of Inequality in Russia by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Leibniz on Causation and Agency by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book World War One in Southeast Asia by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book High-pT Physics in the Heavy Ion Era by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Introducing Morphology by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Timon of Athens by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
Cover of the book Big Data over Networks by Louis A. Ferleger, John D. Metz
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy