King cotton in modern America a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 /
Gardado en:
| Autor Principal: | |
|---|---|
| Autor Corporativo: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| Publicado: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Acceso en liña: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Tags: |
Engadir etiqueta
Sen Etiquetas, Sexa o primeiro en etiquetar este rexistro!
|
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.