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Author | : James C. Giesen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226292851 |
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
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Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2002-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780805067125 |
When a very, very small beetle decides to attend a ball, he won't let anything stop him -- not even the danger of being squished on the dance floor.
Author | : Rhett Barbaree |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2018-09-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781722915865 |
Have you ever wondered why there is a statue dedicated to the boll weevil in downtown Enterprise, Alabama? Here's the story behind it- how cotton was king in the south... but the invasion of an insect threatened the entire economy of the south. The foresight of one man, who listened to what God told him, and those who had the faith to listen to what he had to say- that one decision changed the way a generation farmed and raised their families, and ultimately kept an entire generation from being destroyed.
Author | : Hugh Maddox |
Publisher | : Strode Publishers |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780873970976 |
When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
Author | : Leland Ossian Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Boll weevil |
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Author | : Alfred Holt Stone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
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Author | : Franklin Sherman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Boll weevil |
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Author | : Robert Eaton Fye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Boll weevil |
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Author | : Walter David Hunter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Boll weevil |
ISBN | : |
"This bulletin contains a general account of the boll weevil problem. It deals with the history of the insect in the Untied States, the damage it has done in different regions,a nd the reasons for local variations in damage, the indications for the future, the habits of the weevil in so far as they are connected with control measures, and the means of reducing the injury it causes by methods which ave been tested in many experimental fields and by large numbers of practical planters." -- p. [2]
Author | : Charles Emerson Sanborn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Boll weevil |
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