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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South)
Pharsalia An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation 17801880 - Environmental History and the American South
Author: Nelson, Lynn A.
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 method...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780820334165
ISBN-10: 0820334162
Publication Date: 12/1/2009
Pages: 328
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Paperback
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