The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War (Creating the North American Landscape)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780801873096
Subjects: Historical geography; Regional geography; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 20th Century; Human Geography; History; Science; History: American; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Earth Sciences - Geography; United States - 19th Century; History / United States / General
First sentence: A few years before his death in 1932, Ulrich Bonnel Phillips, one of the prominent historians of the American South during the first half of the twentieth century, journeyed from his academic haven at the University of Michigan across the new farmlands of California's Central Valley.