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

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Brown, D. Clayton (Deward Clayton), 1941-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Cotton textile industry > History.
Cotton growing > United States > History.
Cotton manufacture > United States > History.
Cotton trade > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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