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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commercial Convention Held in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, May, 1869
Author: A Century on the Mississippi
Author: Floyd M. ClayPublisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Since 1882, the men and women of the Memphis District have performed a dedicated service toward flood control and navigation works in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Their efforts have been a cornerstone in the development of the science of river engineering over many years of struggle with capricious whims of the mighty Mississippi River. This book attempts to establish the chronology of the District's work and to show how both successes and failures well served the early engineers in the development of sound engineering techniques. Today, the Lower Mississippi River is a giant in shackles and the nation's principal waterway. As of this writing, the massive Mississippi River and tributaries project has proven itself, protectingt the valley through three consecutive years of flooding, including the third largest ever, the mammoth 1973 flood.
The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845-1871
Author: Vicki Vaughn JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Cotton Regency
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
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Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The cotton regency, the northern merchants...
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Chinese in the Post-Civil War South
Author: Lucy M. CohenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, “Chinatowns,” in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to merge into the surrounding communities within a single generation’s time, quickly disappearing from historical accounts and becoming, as they themselves phrased it, a “mixed nation.” Lucy M. Cohen’s Chinese in the Post-Civil War South traces the experience of the Chinese who came to the South during Reconstruction. Many of them were recruited by planters eager to fill the labor vacuum created by emancipation with “coolie” labor. The Planters’ aims were obstructed in part by the federal government’s determination not to allow the South the opportunity to create a new form of slavery. Some Chinese did, however, enter into labor contracts with planters—agreements that the planters often altered without consultation or negotiation with the workers. With the Chinese intent upon the inviolability of their contracts, the arrangements with the planters soon broke down. At the end of their employment on the plantations, some of the immigrants returned to China or departed for other areas of the United States. Still others, however, chose to remain near where they had been employed. Living in cultural isolation rather than in the China towns in major cities, the immigrants soon no longer used their original language to communicate within the home; they adopted new surnames, so that even among brothers and sisters variations of names existed; they formed no associations or guilds specific to their heritage; and they intermarried, so that a few generations later their physical features were no longer readily observable in their descendants. Based on extensive research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of the immigrants, this study by Lucy Cohen is the first history of the Chinese in the Reconstruction South—their rejection of the role that planter society had envisioned for them and their quick adaptation into a less rigid segment of rural southern society.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: The Congressional globe
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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