The agroecologies of a southern community: The Tye River Valley of Virginia, 1730-1860
The farmers of piedmont Virginia's Tye River Valley adapted agriculture to a commercial frontier during the eighteenth century. This 'frontier agroecosystem' optimized labor returns by exploiting the stored fertility of mature ecosystems at the expense of conservation, but proved vuln...
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W&M ScholarWorks
1998
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623935 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3527&context=etd |