Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina

by Shepherd W. McKinley

Book Overview

South Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award

In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.

Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813064619
• ISBN13: 9780813064611
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"