Cattle in the Cotton Fields: A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama

by Brook Blevins

Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component of southern history, inextricably linked to issues of sectional politics, progressivism, race and class struggles, and rural depopulation. Most historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817309403
• ISBN13: 9780817309404
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"