Author: John WymondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Author: John WymondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Author: Collections Vol 10 N4
Author: CollectionsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442267917
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
"Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals" is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of handling, preserving, researching, and organizing collections. Curators, archivists, collections managers, preparators, registrars, educators, students, and others contribute.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index
Author: The Official Record of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publications
Author: Bulletin of Bibliography & Magazine Notes
Author: Bulletin of Bibliography
Author: The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930
Author: John OttoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313002290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields. Although these alluvial bottomlands contained the richest cotton soils in the American South, cotton-growers in the Southern bottomlands faced a host of environmental problems, including dense forests, seasonal floods, water-logged soils, poor transportation, malarial fevers and insect pests. This interdisciplinary approach uses primary and secondary sources from the fields of history, geography, sociology, agronomy, and ecology to fill an important gap in our knowledge of American environmental history. Requiring laborers to clear and cultivate their lands, cotton-growers recruited black and white workers from the upland areas of the Southern states. Growers also supported the levee districts which built imposing embankments to hold the floodwaters in check. Canals and drainage ditches were constructed to drain the lands, and local railways and graveled railways soon ended the area's isolation. Finally, quinine and patent medicines would offer some relief from the malarial fevers that afflicted bottomland residents, and commercial poisons would combat the local pests that attacked the cotton plants, including the boll weevils which arrived in the early twentieth century.