Jonathan M. Bryant
How Curious a Land
The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity. In How Curious a Land, Jonathan Bryant follows the county's social, economic, and legal transformation from a wealthy, self-sufficient plantation economy based on slavery to a largely impoverished, economically dependent community dominated by a new commercial class of merchants and lawyers.
How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885
University of North Carolina Press, 2004
ISBN 978-0-8078-5614-7