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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.