Breaking the Land
Subtitle: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780252013911
Subjects: American history; Rice trade; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Southern States; Anthropology - Cultural; General; History / United States / 19th Century; Cotton trade; Tobacco industry
First sentence: For a century and a half cotton farming dominated the southern United States.