Author: Cotton Research Committee of TexasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Story of Cotton Research in Texas
Author: Cotton Research Committee of TexasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Brief Favoring the Establishment in Texas of a Cotton Research Laboratory
Author: State-wide Cotton Committee of TexasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Seeds of Empire
Author: Andrew J. TorgetPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469624257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
Cotton on the South Plains
Author: John Taylor BeckerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738595853
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Today's cotton production on the South Plains barely resembles the cotton culture of 100 years ago. When cotton first came to the South Plains it was very labor intensive, with every stage of production depending on large amounts of hand labor. The planting, cultivating, and picking or pulling of cotton were all done by hand. Often, the harvested cotton was transported to gins in wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules. Today, due to the many improvements in the industry, most cotton is grown without ever being touched by human hands. The story of cotton on the South Plains is the story of continuous change, improvement, and mechanization.
Vital Facts about the Cotton Industry of Texas
Author: Cotton Research Committee of TexasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing and manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Statistical Study of the Decrease in the Texas Cotton Crop Due to the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil and the Cotton Acreage of Texas 1899 to 1904 Inclusive
Author: Dwight SandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Cotton Industry and what it Means to Texas
Author: Texas. University. Cotton Economic ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Cotton
Author: C. Wayne SmithPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471180456
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Here is a vital new source of "need-to-know" information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies.
Cotton Production Manual
Author: S. Johnson HakePublisher: University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
ISBN: 9781879906099
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Cotton Production Manual was written for growers everywhere who strive to improve cotton quality and productivity. Features a season-by season production calendar with pest and disease control, fertilization, and irrigation tips and a Diagnostic Guide to help you identify crop problems in the field with management options. 12 pages of color plates.
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the MexicoTexas Border
Author: Casey WalshPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 160344436X
Category : Cotton farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cardenas government's effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico's effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the "social field" of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh's important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.