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Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233971483
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Rise & Fall of King Cotton written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book King Cotton written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise & Fall of King Cotton written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Clayton Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469323
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book King Cotton in Modern America written by D. Clayton Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gene Dattel
Publisher : Government Institutes
ISBN 13 : 1442210192
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Cotton and Race in the Making of America written by Gene Dattel and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and thereby a major driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Nathan A. Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Fall of King Cotton written by Nathan A. Woodward and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Christy
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cotton is King written by David Christy and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1855 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward E Baptist
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465097685
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Half Has Never Been Told written by Edward E Baptist and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
Author : David Lewis Cohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of King Cotton written by David Lewis Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353251
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Empire of Cotton written by Sven Beckert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world. 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. 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. The result is a book 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.
Author : Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719033391
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Decline and Fall of King Cotton written by Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew J. Torget
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469624257
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Seeds of Empire written by Andrew J. Torget and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
Author : James Lawrence Watkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book King Cotton written by James Lawrence Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold D. Woodman
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781893122512
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (225 download)
Download or read book King Cotton and His Retainers written by Harold D. Woodman and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399057359
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book A History of the Cotton Industry written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one of the great turning points in history the industrial revolution. It began with the importation of cloth into Britain from India and that created a new fashion. As the demand for cotton cloth grew, British inventors began to find ways of making the same cloth using powered machinery and built the first cotton mills. The old way of life of the textile workers was transformed, as work moved from home to factory and thousands of small children were brought in to tend the new machines. If conditions in the cotton towns were bad, they were far worse in America where, thanks to the work of slaves, the country took over the supply of raw material from India. During the American Civil War, Britain turned again to India for its supplies. Today, positions have changed dramatically. India again has a thriving industry, while in Britain only a fraction of the old mills are still at work. The author looks in detail at the technology that produced the changes, but the emphasis is very much on the human stories of the industrialists and their workers, the planters and their slaves in Britain, India and America.
Author : Claudius Temple Murchison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book King Cotton is Sick written by Claudius Temple Murchison and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an analysis of the causes of depression in a basic industry. The problems go deeper than poor management or exploitation. This volume examines the structure of the industry and shows why chronic depression will be practically inevitable in a large part of the industry until certain evils such as speculation are corrected. Originally published in 1930. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Bruce E. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190211660
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Cotton Kings written by Bruce E. Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
