The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American AgribusinessEconomists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cotton growing crop lien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of thousands of