Crop Choices in the Piedmont Before and After the Civil War
利用1860年和1880年佐治亚州皮埃蒙特三个县的普查与税收数据，分析内战后作物选择决策的变化，发现肥料、种族、土地保有权和贫困在不同区域的影响不同。
Census and tax data for three counties in the Georgia Piedmont in 1860 and 1880 are used to analyze changes in crop-choice decisions after the Civil War. Although changes in the lower and upper Piedmont were similar, the explanations for these changes in the two areas differ in important respects. In the upper Piedmont the use of fertilizer is a very important explanator, whereas race and tenure are of little significance. Fertilizer is also an important explanator in the lower Piedmont, but so are race, tenure, and poverty of farm operators.