Study of Agricultural and Economic Problems of the Cotton Belt: July 7-8, 1947
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 912
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 912
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 1210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0813150485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
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Published: 1935
Total Pages: 844
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 2152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 1222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edwin Gustaff Strand
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Published: 1948
Total Pages: 942
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D. Clayton Brown
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1604737999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKing 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.