The Roots of Southern Distinctiveness: Tobacco and Society in Danville, Virginia, 1780-1865

by Frederick F. Siegel

Book Overview

Using Danville, Virginia, which was dominated by planter-entrepreneurs and tobacco, as an example, Siegel refutes traditional arguments that the South's retarded development was caused by the Civil... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807817279
• ISBN13: 9780807817278
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.