Author: Publisher:
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Wool and Cotton Reporter and Financial Gazette
Author: The World's Work
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
A history of our time.
Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. GiesenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Agricultural Journal
Author: Quarterly Bulletin of the Public Library, Hartford, Conn
Author: Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Agricultural Student
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description