Pharsalia An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880

Name: Pharsalia An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
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ISBN: 9780820334165

ISBN-10: 0820334162

ISBN-13: 9780820334165

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lynn A. Nelson, Paul S. Sutter

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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 soil's erosion and…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Maps


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Soils of Old Virginia



Property Lines and Power before Pharsalia, 1738-1796



Independence and the Birth of Pharsalia, 1796-1830



Pharsalia's Ecological Crisis, 1828-1848



Capitalism and Conservation at Pharsalia, 1848-1862



The Gentry Family and the Fall of Pharsalia, 1861-1889


Epilogue: Mourning Pharsalia


Notes


Bibliography


Index