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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Cultivating success in the South
    sub title: farm households in the postbellum era
  name:
    name part: Ferleger, Lou.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Metz, John D.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and livelihoods. Relying on primary documents, including probate inventories, tax lists, state and federal census data and estate sale results, this study seeks to understand the variables that prompted farm households to assume greater risk in hopes of success as well as those factors that stood in the way of progress. While there are few projects of this type for the late nineteenth century, and fewer still for the New South, the findings challenge the notion of farmers as overly conservative consumers and call into question traditional views of conspicuous consumption as a key indicator of wealth and status.
  note: Louis A. Ferleger, Boston University, John D. Metz, Library of Virginia.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ga
  subject:
    topic: Farm produce
    geographic: Georgia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Households
    geographic: Georgia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Farm risks
    geographic: Georgia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Georgia
    topic: Economic conditions
  classification: HD9007.G4 F47 2014
  classification: 338.109758/109034
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies on the American South
  identifier: 9781107054110
  identifier: 1107054117
  identifier: 9781107651173
  identifier: 1107651174
  identifier: 1139990705
  identifier: 9781139990707
  identifier: 2014001856
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140116
    record change date: 20210722120004.0
    record identifier: in00004395537