Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: 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.
Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Boll Weevil Ball
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805067125
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When a very, very small beetle decides to attend a ball, he won't let anything stop him -- not even the danger of being squished on the dance floor.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805067125
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When a very, very small beetle decides to attend a ball, he won't let anything stop him -- not even the danger of being squished on the dance floor.
Thank God for Boll Weevils
Author: Rhett Barbaree
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722915865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why there is a statue dedicated to the boll weevil in downtown Enterprise, Alabama? Here's the story behind it- how cotton was king in the south... but the invasion of an insect threatened the entire economy of the south. The foresight of one man, who listened to what God told him, and those who had the faith to listen to what he had to say- that one decision changed the way a generation farmed and raised their families, and ultimately kept an entire generation from being destroyed.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722915865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why there is a statue dedicated to the boll weevil in downtown Enterprise, Alabama? Here's the story behind it- how cotton was king in the south... but the invasion of an insect threatened the entire economy of the south. The foresight of one man, who listened to what God told him, and those who had the faith to listen to what he had to say- that one decision changed the way a generation farmed and raised their families, and ultimately kept an entire generation from being destroyed.
The Mexican Cotton-boll Weevil (Anthonomus Grandis Boh.)
Author: Leland Ossian Howard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Of remedies. pp. 8
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Of remedies. pp. 8
The Truth about the Boll Weevil
Author: Alfred Holt Stone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Boll Weevil Complex in Arizona
Author: Robert Eaton Fye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Cotton Boll Weevil
Author: Franklin Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Billy Boll Weevil
Author: Hugh Maddox
Publisher: Strode Publishers
ISBN: 9780873970976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
Publisher: Strode Publishers
ISBN: 9780873970976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
The Boll-weevil Problem
Author: Walter David Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"This bulletin contains a general account of the boll weevil problem. It deals with the history of the insect in the Untied States, the damage it has done in different regions,a nd the reasons for local variations in damage, the indications for the future, the habits of the weevil in so far as they are connected with control measures, and the means of reducing the injury it causes by methods which ave been tested in many experimental fields and by large numbers of practical planters." -- p. [2]
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
"This bulletin contains a general account of the boll weevil problem. It deals with the history of the insect in the Untied States, the damage it has done in different regions,a nd the reasons for local variations in damage, the indications for the future, the habits of the weevil in so far as they are connected with control measures, and the means of reducing the injury it causes by methods which ave been tested in many experimental fields and by large numbers of practical planters." -- p. [2]
The Cotton Boll Weevil in Tennessee
Author: Gordon Mansir Bentley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description