One South or Many?

by Robert Tracy McKenzie

Book Overview

This book is a state-wide study of Tennessee's agricultural population between 1850 and 1880. Relying upon massive samples of census data as well as plantation accounts, the author provides the first systematic comparison of the socioeconomic bases of plantation and non-plantation areas both before and immediately after the Civil War. Although the study applauds scholars' growing appreciation of southern diversity during the nineteenth century, it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521462703
• ISBN13: 9780521462709
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"