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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the ... History and the American South)
Lynn A. Nelson
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Description for Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the ... History and the American South)
Hardcover. Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. This case study follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b&w photos, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; RNF; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement. Nelson follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the ... Read more
Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement. Nelson follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820326276
SKU
V9780820326276
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About Lynn A. Nelson
Lynn A. Nelson is an associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.
Reviews for Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the ... History and the American South)
Lynn Nelson has given us a wonderful case study of southern agricultural practices during the nineteenth century. His 'biography' of Pharsalia, a plantation in upland Virginia, is in every sense a life story not only of planters and slaves but also of the crops, weeds, livestock, and other organisms that inhabited the land for nearly a hundred years. - Timothy ... Read more