Tapping The Pines
Subtitle: The Naval Stores Industry In The American South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807129814
Subjects: Forestry & related industries; Southern States; History: American; Business / Economics / Finance; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; United States - 19th Century; Industries - General; United States - State & Local - General; History; United States - General; Employees; Naval stores industry
Description: The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine--along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin--constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production. In a study that weaves together business, environmental, labor, and social history, Robert B. Outland III offers the first complete account of this sizable though little-understood sector of the southern economy.