Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880 (Environmental History and the American South)

by LynnA.Nelson (Author)

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  Library Binding
  2007

  $48.13

  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. This case study follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion.