The new south comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910
By: Mark V. Wetherington.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Univ of Tennessee Pr
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Rural development -- Georgia.; Georgia -- Economic conditions.; Georgia -- Rural conditions.
Other titles: Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910.
Description: This first book-length examination of cultural change in the Georgia Pine Belt challenges the conventional view of this area as an unchanging economic backwater by examining its postbellum evolution from a self-sufficient economy to one largely dependent upon a single commercial crop - cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders.

After the war, a variety of external forces invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape. Mark V. Wetherington's in-depth study sheds new light on the region's socioeconomic history and encourages a closer examination of post-Civil War change throughout the southern Pine Belt.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-376) and index.