King Cotton in Modern America : A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, D. Clayton (Deward Clayton), 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cotton textile industry > History.
Cotton growing > United States > History.
Cotton manufacture > United States > History.
Cotton trade > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the power of cotton
  • The cultural image of cotton, 1945
  • The new politics of cotton
  • The cotton conference
  • A new era begins
  • Ambassadors of foreign policy, 1945-1950
  • The dinner table war : postwar struggles
  • The South transformed : cotton's mechanization, 1945-1970
  • The white gold rush : cotton moves West
  • Boll weevils, worms, and moths : a hundred-year war
  • Memphis : the epicenter of the Cotton Belt
  • "The fabric of our lives" : cotton incorporated
  • The Texas plains : America's cotton patch
  • The question of subsidies
  • Crop lien to futures : financing cotton
  • The role of textiles
  • Research : the key to viability
  • Challenges anew
  • The globalization of cotton
  • The new cotton culture.

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