Piney Wood Echoes
Author: Fred Shelton Watson
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 220
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Author: Fred Shelton Watson
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 220
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 200
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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: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 1142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jerrilyn McGregory
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781604739572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life
Author: David Williams
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0820340790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat. This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite. The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Holstein-Friesian Association of America
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1474
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