Pharsalia
Subtitle: an environmental biography of a southern plantation, 1780-1880
By: Lynn A. Nelson.
Series: Environmental history and the American South
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780820326276
Subjects: Massey family; Agricultural ecology -- Virginia -- Pharsalia Plantation (Va.) -- History; Agriculture -- Virginia -- Pharsalia Plantation (Va.) -- History; Agricultural conservation -- Virginia -- Pharsalia Plantation (Va.) -- History; Slavery -- Virginia -- Pharsalia Plantation (Va.) -- History; Pharsalia Plantation (Va.) -- History
Description: "Pharsalia, a plantation located in Piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-285) and index.