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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the American South Ser.) by Lynn A. Nelson; Paul S. Sutter is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the American South Ser.) about?
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 manif
Who reads Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South) (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lynn A. Nelson; Paul S. Sutter
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780820326276
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Agriculture
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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