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

Author/Contributor(s):	Nelson, Lynn a
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	12/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Drawing on the Massie family's records, 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.