Patterns of Cotton Agriculture in Post-Bellum Georgia
重新审视美国内战后南方棉花产量的增长，发现这种增长仅限于佐治亚和南卡罗来纳的皮埃蒙特地区，且1880年的模式主要由居民种族构成解释，而非土地所有制变量。
This paper reexamines the well-known increase in cotton production in the postbellum American South, revealing a rather less well understood pattern. The shift to cotton was confined to the Piedmont area of Georgia and South Carolina; it was not a phenomenon of the entire South. The changes in cotton production between 1860 and 1880 followed patterns quite different from those shown in an analysis of 1880 alone. And the 1880 pattern is best explained by the racial composition of the inhabitants, as noted originally by DeCanio, not the tenure variables emphasized in much of the existing literature.