King cotton in modern America a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 /
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.