Publication

2006-09-01 - University Press of Kentucky

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006010201
  • Goodreads1955362

Classifications

  • LCCF208.2 .W35 2006

Description

"In Southern Farmers and Their Stories, Melissa Walker explores the ways in which a diverse array of farmers remember and recount the past. The book tells the story of the modernization of the South in the voices of those most affected by the decline of traditional ways of life and work. Walker analyzes the recurring patterns in their narratives of change and loss, filling in gaps left by more conventional political and economic histories of southern agriculture."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Ruth Hatchette McBrayer operated a peach orchard in South Carolina for nearly forty years, but the white landowner gave up peach farming in the mid-1980s.

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