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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 : David L. Cohn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Life and Time of King Cotton written by David L. Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375713964
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Empire of Cotton written by Sven Beckert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's 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. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times 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. Sven 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. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
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 : 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.
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 : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429015918
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Cotton Kingdom written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."
Author : Harris Dickson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of King Cotton written by Harris Dickson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lawrence Watkins
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295617845
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book King Cotton written by James Lawrence Watkins and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ King Cotton: A Historical And Statistical Review, 1790 To 1908; Library Of American Civilization; King Cotton: A Historical And Statistical Review 1790 To 1908; James Lawrence Watkins James Lawrence Watkins J. L. Watkins & sons, 1908 Cotton growing; Cotton manufacture
Author : Deward Clayton Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604737981
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (379 download)
Download or read book King Cotton in Modern America written by Deward Clayton Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 440 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 : David Christy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Cotton is King written by David Christy and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Yafa
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143037224
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Cotton written by Stephen Yafa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this endlessly revealing book reminds us that the fiber we think of as ordinary is the world's most powerful cash crop, and that it has shaped the destiny of nations. Ranging from its domestication 5,500 years ago to its influence in creating Calvin Klein's empire and the Gap, Stephen Yafa's Cotton gives us an intimate look at the plant that fooled Columbus into thinking he'd reached India, that helped start the Industrial Revolution as well as the American Civil War, and that made at least one bug—the boll weevil—world famous. A sweeping chronicle of ingenuity, greed, conflict, and opportunism, Cotton offers "a barrage of fascinating information" (Los Angeles Times).
Author : James Ewing Ritchie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The life and times of viscount Palmerston written by James Ewing Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Clayton Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9781617038358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)
Download or read book King Cotton in Modern America written by D. Clayton Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How farming of the South's royal fiber expanded and changed under mechanization and competition
Author : Charlotte Barske
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ISBN 13 : 9781258979317
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)
Download or read book King Cotton written by Charlotte Barske and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.
Author : Committee for Economic Recovery
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Long Live King Cotton written by Committee for Economic Recovery and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lawrence Watkins
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343592677
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (926 download)
Download or read book King Cotton written by James Lawrence Watkins and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
