CROP CHOICES IN THE PIEDMONT BEFORE AND AFTER THE CIVIL-WAR

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: HARRIS, JW
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700015023
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 526-542
• 关键词: georgia; upcountry; farmers

摘要

Census and tax data for three counties in the Georgia Piedmont in 1860 and 1880 are used to analyze changes in crop-choice decisions after the Civil War. Although changes in the lower and upper Piedmont were similar, the explanations for these changes in the two areas differ in important respects. In the upper Piedmont the use of fertilizer is a very important explanator, whereas race and tenure are of little significance. Fertilizer is also an important explanator in the lower Piedmont, but so race, tenure, and poverty of farm operators.