All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941

by Melissa Walker

Book Overview

Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians

In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080186318X
• ISBN13: 9780801863189
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"