Cotton is King
Author | : David Christy |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Christy |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E. N. Elliott |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. Clayton Brown |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2011-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628469323 |
King Cotton in Modern America places the once kingly crop in historical perspective, showing how "cotton culture" was actually part of the larger culture of the United States despite many regarding its cultivation and sources as hopelessly backward. Leaders in the industry, acting through the National Cotton Council, organized the various and often conflicting segments to make the commodity a viable part of the greater American economy. The industry faced new challenges, particularly the rise of foreign competition in production and the increase of man-made fibers in the consumer market. Modernization and efficiency became key elements for cotton planters. The expansion of cotton- growing areas into the Far West after 1945 enabled American growers to compete in the world market. Internal dissension developed between the traditional cotton growing regions in the South and the new areas in the West, particularly over the USDA cotton allotment program. Mechanization had profound social and economic impacts. Through music and literature, and with special emphasis placed on the meaning of cotton to African Americans in the lore of Memphis's Beale Street, blues music, and African American migration off the land, author D. Clayton Brown carries cotton's story to the present.
Author | : Rickey Butch Walker |
Publisher | : Alabama Plantation Series |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-08-12 |
Genre | : Cotton farmers |
ISBN | : 9781949711141 |
Glimpse into the struggles of many planters that saw the Tennessee Valley as an opportunity to establish plantations in lands that came available in 1818. The planters brought slaves as labor to turn the lands into cotton fields, cabins, and mansions. The workers made these plantations an economic success.
Author | : Bruce E. Baker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190211660 |
The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption, a small group of brokers sought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New York and New Orleans. They triumphed, cornering the world market in cotton and raising its price for years. However, the structural problems of self-regulation by market participants continued to threaten the cotton trade until eventually political pressure inspired federal regulation. In the form of the Cotton Futures Act of 1914, the federal government stamped out corruption on the exchanges, helping millions of farmers and textile manufacturers. Combining a gripping narrative with the controversial argument that markets work better when placed under federal regulation, The Cotton Kings brings to light a rarely told story that speaks directly to contemporary conflicts between free markets and regulation.
Author | : Thomas Armstrong |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Cotton farmers |
ISBN | : 9780002214063 |
Beginning in the 1850s, this shows the effect of the American Civil War on people in England, particularly in Lancashire.
Author | : David Lewis Cohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
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Author | : Sven Beckert |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375713964 |
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
Author | : Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429015918 |
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."
Author | : David Christy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
ISBN | : |