Cinderella of the new South
Subtitle: a history of the cottonseed industry, 1855-1955
By: Lynette Boney Wrenn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Cottonseed -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Cottonseed -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Cottonseed oil -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.; Cottonseed oil -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: For decades after the Civil War, the cottonseed industry played a critical role in the economy of the American South - an importance that previous historical accounts of the region have barely acknowledged. In Cinderella of the New South, Lynette Boney Wrenn fills a major gap in scholarship by tracing the story of the cottonseed industry from its antebellum origins through its transformation during the first half of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings of the American cottonseed industry; title: Expansion of cottonseed milling in the South; title: Cottonseed buying and selling; title: Cottonseed crushing; title: Cottonseed-oil refining and manufacturing; title: Organization of the cottonseed industry; title: Cottonseed price fixing and politics; title: World War I and postwar shocks; title: Competition and cooperation between the world wars; title: End of the hydraulic era; title: The new industry and the new South.