King cotton in modern America [electronic resource] : a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 / D. Clayton Brown.
Publication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.Description: xi, 440 p., [14] p. of plates : illISBN:- 9781604737981 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781604737998 (e-book)
- 338.1/73510973 22
- HD9075 .B82 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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