King cotton in modern America
Brown, D. Clayton 1941-
King cotton in modern America a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 / [electronic resource] : D. Clayton Brown. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 440 p., [14] p. of plates :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781604737998 1604737999
Cotton textile industry--History.
Cotton growing--History.--United States
Cotton manufacture--History.--United States
Cotton trade--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HD9075 / .B82 2011
338.1/73510973
King cotton in modern America a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 / [electronic resource] : D. Clayton Brown. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 440 p., [14] p. of plates :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9781604737998 1604737999
Cotton textile industry--History.
Cotton growing--History.--United States
Cotton manufacture--History.--United States
Cotton trade--History.--United States
Electronic books.
HD9075 / .B82 2011
338.1/73510973