Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton"
  • "The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa
  • "The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture
  • "King Cotton's impoverished retinue": Making cotton a "White man's crop" in the American South
  • Cotton, development, and the "Imperial Burden."