Papers on the cotton boll weevil and related and associated insects
Author: Frederick Charles Pratt
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Published: 1907
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Author: Frederick Charles Pratt
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Published: 1907
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. C. Morgan
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Published: 1907
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren Elmer Hinds
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Published: 1907
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Agriculture
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0226292851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Author: B. R. Coad
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franklin Sherman
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of Agriculture
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