Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 - Environmental History and the American South - Lynn A. Nelson - Books - University of Georgia Press - 9780820334165 - December 1, 2009
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Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 - Environmental History and the American South

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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.


328 pages, 12 b&w photos, 4 maps

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 1, 2009
ISBN13 9780820334165
Publishers University of Georgia Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 19 mm   ·   480 g
Language English  

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