Farmers and the Market in Antebellum America: A View from the Georgia Upcountry
研究了19世纪50年代佐治亚州上游地区不同子区域融入市场体系的差异，发现西部因本地发展带来多样化市场生产和资本收益而融入市场，东部因市场缺失而经济孤立。
The Upcountry of the Lower South was located on the periphery of the antebellum cotton economy, but some of its subregions were integrated into the market system in the 1850s. An analysis of sample counties in the Georgia Upcountry demonstrates that the spread of market production into the western half of the region depended on local development which created opportunities for diversified market production and increased household wealth through capital gains on improvements. The absence of market development in the eastern half of the region, in contrast, limited the wealth of farm households, reinforcing their economic isolation.