• King cotton in modern America : a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945
    [NT 47261] Author: BrownD. Clayton, 1941-
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Jackson
    [NT 47263] Published: University Press of Mississippi;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (xi, 440 p., [14] p. of plates)ill. :
    [NT 47266] Subject: Cotton textile industry - History -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Cotton growing - History - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Cotton manufacture - History - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Cotton trade - History - United States -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781604737998/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781604737998electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 1604737999electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781604737981hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 1604737980hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Prologue : the power of cotton -- The cultural image of cotton, 1945-- The new politics of cotton -- The cotton conference -- A new era begins -- Ambassadors of foreign policy, 1945-1950 -- Thedinner table war : postwar struggles -- The South transformed : cotton's mechanization, 1945-1970 -- The white gold rush : cotton moves West -- Boll weevils,worms, and moths : a hundred-year war -- Memphis : the epicenter of the Cotton Belt -- "The fabric of our lives" : cotton incorporated -- TheTexas plains : America's cotton patch -- The question of subsidies -- Crop lien to futures : financing cotton -- The role of textiles -- Research : the key to viability -- Challenges anew -- The globalization of cotton -- The new cotton culture
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