Publication

1996 - University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

66,500 words, Guess

Page Count

266 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads4239620
  • LibraryThing7578796

Classifications

  • DDC975.8/612041
  • LCCF292.G7 B79 1996

Description

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, the legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.

First Sentence

In March 1848 the Greene County Inferior Court accepted Atharates Atkinson's and David Demarest's plans for a new county courthouse.

Excerpt

In March 1848 the Greene County Inferior Court accepted Atharates Atkinson's and David Demarest's plans for a new county courthouse.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryAgricultureGreen county (ga.)Economic conditionsAgriculture, united statesGreene County (Ga.) -- History.Greene County (Ga.) -- Economic conditions.

Times

Series Statement

  • The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Other Editions

  • How curious a land: conflict and change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885University of North Carolina Press1996-01-01

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