Texas, cotton, and the New Deal
By: Keith J. Volanto.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;; no. 7
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: United States.; Cotton growing -- Government policy -- Texas -- History.; Cotton trade -- Government policy -- Texas -- History.; New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Texas.
Description: Cotton growing-Government policy-Texas-Historly 2. Cotton trade-government policy-Texas-History. 3. New Deal1933-1939-Texas. 4. United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the New Deal; title: Creation of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the 1933 program; title: The rise of compulsory control, 1934-35; title: Treading water with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 1936-37; title: Emergence of the ever-normal granary, 1937-39; title: Tenant and sharecropper displacement in Texas.