Boll weevil blues
Subtitle: cotton, myth, and power in the American South
By: James C. Giesen
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780226292878
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Cotton; Economic conditions; Boll weevil; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Myth making on the cotton frontier; title: Cultures of resistance in Texas and Louisiana: tenants make sense of the boll weevil; title: 'Map maker, troublemaker, history maker': the boll weevil threatens the Delta; title: Delta solutions big and small; title: 'The herald of prosperity': the promise of diversification in Alabama; title: 'You will be poor and ignorant and your children will be the same': the boll weevil myth transformed; title: Cotton's obituaries: the boll weevil in Georgia; title: Conclusion: The boll weevil's lost revolution.