Petty, Adrienne Monteith, 1971-

Standing their ground : small farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War / Adrienne Monteith Petty. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work explores a local iteration of a profound human experience: the transformation of agriculture. Focusing on small farm owners in North Carolina, it argues that they resisted changes to farming that did not square with their agrarian ideology.

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Farmers--History.--North Carolina
Farms, Small--History.--North Carolina
Agriculture--History.--North Carolina


North Carolina--History--1865-

S451.N8 / P48 2013

630.9756