Brooks, Robert Preston. The Agrarian Revolution in Georgia, 1865-1912; Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, No. 639. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1914. First Edition. [1756]
Green cloth boards with a fine leather & gilt spine title label, originally issued in wrappers and these are retained in this private binding. 9 1/2 x 6 inches, 128 pp., very good clean condition. Very good. Hardcover.
Signed "Fletcher M. Green on the tp - Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978), for 24 years a member of the faculty of the history department at the University of North Carolina.
“This monograph devotes itself mainly to the subject of land tenure in Georgia as affected by the quantity and quality of the labor supply. The struggle of land-owners after the War to maintain the plantation system gave way before economic and psychological difficulties - the very great scarcity of laborers and the negroes’ dislike of working under supervision and control.” - Review in Journal of Political Economy, July, 1914.
A Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Wisconsin.
Robert Preston Brooks (1881-1961), b. Milledgeville, GA; d Athens, GA. Brooks was one of the first recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship and later served professor of history and as the first dean of the School of Commerce in the University of Georgia (1920-1945).
