King cotton in modern America
Subtitle: a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945
By: D. Clayton Brown
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781604737981; 9781604737998
Subjects: Cotton manufacture; Cotton growing; Cotton trade; Cotton textile industry; History
Description: Combining history with music and literature, D. Clayton Brown carries cotton's story to the present with a special emphasis on the meaning of cotton in the lore of Memphis's Beale Street, blues music, and African American migration. --From the publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the power of cotton; title: The cultural image of cotton, 1945; title: The new politics of cotton; title: The cotton conference; title: A new era begins; title: Ambassadors of foreign policy, 1945-1950; title: The dinner table war : postwar struggles; title: The South transformed : cotton's mechanization, 1945-1970; title: The white gold rush : cotton moves West; title: Boll weevils, worms, and moths : a hundred-year war; title: Memphis : the epicenter of the Cotton Belt; title: "The fabric of our lives" : cotton incorporated; title: The Texas plains : America's cotton patch; title: The question of subsidies; title: Crop lien to futures : financing cotton; title: The role of textiles; title: Research : the key to viability; title: Challenges anew; title: The globalization of cotton; title: The new cotton culture.