Delta empire
Subtitle: Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South
By: Jeannie Whayne
Series: Making the modern South
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780807138557; 9780807138564; 9780807138571; 9780807138588
Subjects: Plantation owners; Farmers; Social change; Plantation life; Businessmen; Plantations; Agriculture; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The shaping of the land; title: The making of the man; title: A river of woe : reshaping the land; title: A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era; title: Building it of brick and hollow tile; title: "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927; title: "Get hard and raise hell"; title: Changing of the guard; title: The return of the "class boy"; title: Appendix: Tables.