Delta Empire : Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South /

In Delta Empire Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. From a small inheritance, Robert E. "Lee" Wilson built a 50,000-acre l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Whayne, Jeannie M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wilson, Lee, > 1865-1933.
Social change.
Plantations.
Plantation owners.
Plantation life.
Farmers.
Businessmen.
Agriculture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Vie dans les plantations > Arkansas > Mississippi > Histoire.
Plantations > Arkansas > Mississippi > Histoire.
Agriculture > Arkansas > Mississippi > Histoire.
Hommes d'affaires > Arkansas > Mississippi > Biographies.
Proprietaires de plantations > Arkansas > Mississippi > Biographies.
Agriculteurs > Arkansas > Mississippi > Biographies.
Social change > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Plantation life > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Plantations > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Agriculture > Arkansas > Mississippi County > History.
Businessmen > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Plantation owners > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Farmers > Arkansas > Mississippi County > Biography.
Arkansas > Mississippi County.
Mississippi County (Ark.) > Biography.
Mississippi County (Ark.) > History.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The shaping of the land
  • The making of the man
  • A river of woe : reshaping the land
  • A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era
  • Building it of brick and hollow tile
  • "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927
  • "Get hard and raise hell"
  • Changing of the guard
  • The return of the "class boy"
  • Appendix: Tables.

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