{"product_id":"stinking-stones-and-rocks-of-gold-phosphate-fertilizer-and-industrialization-in-postbellum-south-carolina-hardcover","title":"Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShepherd W. McKinley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouth Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \"A finely layered and important study that fills in gaps in the industrial history of the New South and especially low-country South Carolina.\"--Sidney Bland, author of \u003ci\u003ePreserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Skillfully blurs the old, comfortable line between Old and New South economies and paints a nuanced picture of the new labor relations in the post-slavery era.\"--Charles Holden, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Great Maelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.\u003cbr\u003eFueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStinking Stones and Rocks of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e develops an overarching view of what can be considered one of many key factors in the birth of southern industry. This top-down, bottom-up history (business, labor, social, and economic) analyzes an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShepherd W. McKinley\u003c\/b\u003e, a senior lecturer in American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52320077316370,"sku":"9780813049243","price":113.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/VzdiRG16eVJ4akhETkRWVVJHdm5Sdz09.webp?v=1780253524","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/stinking-stones-and-rocks-of-gold-phosphate-fertilizer-and-industrialization-in-postbellum-south-carolina-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}