How Long to Read Agriculture and the Confederacy

How Long Does it Take to Read Agriculture and the Confederacy?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Agriculture and the Confederacy by R. Douglas Hurt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War. Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.

How long is Agriculture and the Confederacy?

Agriculture and the Confederacy by R. Douglas Hurt is 364 pages long, and a total of 92,456 words.

This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Agriculture and the Confederacy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read Agriculture and the Confederacy aloud.

What Reading Level is Agriculture and the Confederacy?

Agriculture and the Confederacy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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