Title: Cotton and race across the Atlantic : Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 /
Authors: Robins, Jonathan,
Year: 2016
Subjects: British Cotton Growing Association History.; British Cotton Growing Association.; Cotton trade Africa History.; Cotton trade England Lancashire History.; Cotton trade United States.; Cotton trade; Africa; England Lancashire; United States
Contents: The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton" -- "The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa -- "The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture -- "King Cotton's impoverished retinue": Making cotton a "White man's crop" in the American South -- Cotton, development, and the "Imperial Burden."