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Standing their ground : Small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War / Adrienne Monteith Petty.

By: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xi, 281 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199938520 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
  • 0199938520 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 630.9756 PET 23
LOC classification:
  • S451.N8 P48 2013
Contents:
Table of contents Map of Southeastern North Carolina ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War ; Chapter 2: Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture ; Chapter 3: Keep the Stock Law Off Of Us: Defending the Open Range ; Chapter 4: You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self Sufficiency ; Chapter 5: The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act ; Chapter 6: From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal ; Chapter 7: Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work ; Chapter 8: These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s ; Chapter 9: Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.

Table of contents
Map of Southeastern North Carolina ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: On Their Farms and Among Their Pines: The Lower Cape Fear on the Eve of the Civil War ; Chapter 2: Land for the Poor: The Rise of Small Farm Owners in the Age of Commercial Agriculture ; Chapter 3: Keep the Stock Law Off Of Us: Defending the Open Range ; Chapter 4: You Can't Eat Tobacco: The Politics of Self Sufficiency ; Chapter 5: The Right of the Little Man to Live: Small Farm Owners and the Agricultural Adjustment Act ; Chapter 6: From Foxholes to Farms: The GI Bill and the Enduring Agrarian Ideal ; Chapter 7: Nice Work If You Can Get It: Small Farm Owners and Part-Time Work ; Chapter 8: These Catastrophe Days: Federal Farm Policy During the 1950s ; Chapter 9: Nailing the Small Farmer in the Coffin: The Politics of Tobacco and the Agrarian Ideal ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

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