Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606-1860

by Avery Odelle Craven

Book Overview

The germinal study of agriculture's impact on southern history from colonial through antebellum times

Recognized since its initial publication in 1926 as a watershed in American historiography, Avery Odelle Craven's study of soil depletion in Virginia and Maryland links elements of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, causal aspects of the expansion of slavery, and the economics of staple-crop production into a unified view...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036810
• ISBN13: 9781570036811
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"