Agriculture and industry
By: Melissa Walker, agriculture section editor ; James C. Cobb, industry section editor.
Contributors: Walker, Melissa, 1962-; Cobb, James C. 1947-; University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
Series: The new encyclopedia of Southern culture -- v. 11; New encyclopedia of Southern culture -- v. 11.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780807832400; 9780807859094
Subjects: Agriculture -- Southern States -- History -- Encyclopedias; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias; Industries -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias; Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias
Other titles: Agriculture & industry
Notes: "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: AGRICULTURE. Agriculture and rural life; title: African American landowners; title: Agribusiness; title: Agricultural education; title: Colonial farming; title: Consumption and consumers; title: Country stores; title: Crops; title: Diversification; title: 19th century farm organizations; title: Women's roles in foods and markets; title: Garden patches; title: Agriculture in the Southern global economy; title: Good Roads Movement; title: Mechanization; title: Native American agriculture; title: New Deal-era farmer organizations; title: Part-time farming; title: Plantations; title: Rural life; title: Rural-urgan migration; title: Sharecropping and tenancy; title: Soil and soil conservation; title: Sustainable agriculture; title: Women and agriculture; title: Agricultural cooperatives; title: Antebellum agricultural societies; title: Apples; title: Aquaculture; title: Boll weevil; title: Cattle; title: Christmas tree farming; title: Citrus; title: Communal farms; title: Corn; title: Cotton culture; title: Dairy industry; title: Farm Security Administration; title: Fence/stock laws; title: Fertilizer; title: Forage crops; title: Garvey movement; title: Hog production; title: Home extension services; title: Horses and mules; title: Insects and insecticides; title: Seaman A. Knapp; title: Migration labor; title: Peaches peanuts; title: Pecans; title: Clarence Hamilton Poe; title: Poultry; title: "Progressive Farmer"; title: Rice culture; title: Rural Electrification Administration; title: Rural free delivery; title: Sears Roebuck Catalog; title: Soybeans; title: Sugar industry; title: Flue-cured tobacco culture; title: Truck farming; title: Viticulture; title: INDUSTRY. Industry and commerce; title: Antebellum industry; title: Black business; title: Civil rights and business; title: South as "Colony"; title: Expositions and World's Fairs; title: Globalization; title: Resistance to Industrialization; title: Industrialization and change; title: Industrialization in Appalachia; title: Industrialization in the Piedmont; title: Military and economy; title: New South myth; title: Sunbelt South; title: Airline industry; title: Atlanta as commercial center; title: Automobile industry; title: Banking; title: Bulldozer revolution; title: Casino gambling; title: Chain and specialty stores; title: Coal mining; title: Coca-cola; title: "De Bow's Review"; title: Delta Airlines; title: James B. Duke; title: Henry Flagler; title: Foreign industry; title: Furniture industry; title: Henry W. Grady; title: William Gregg; title: Insurance; title: Liquor industry; title: Mobile home industry; title: Music industry; title: Naval Stores; title: Nuclear industry; title: Oil industry; title: Radio industry; title: Railroad industry; title: Research Triangle Park; title: Savannah River site; title: Southern Growth Policies Board; title: J. P. Stevens and Company; title: Textile industry; title: Timber industry; title: Tobacco industry; title: Trucking industry; title: Wal-Mart; title: Walton, Sam M.