Cinderella of the New South

Cinderella of the New South
Author: Lynette Boney Wrenn
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780870498824

Traces the story of the cottonseed industry from its antebellum origins through its transformation during the first half of the 20th century. Details the mechanics of cottonseed oil production, the organization of the industry, and the effects of cottonseed price fixing and politics, WWI, antitrust legislation, and the New Deal. Includes bandw photos and diagrams. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Anklet for a Princess

Anklet for a Princess
Author: Lila Mehta
Publisher: Cinderella
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781885008466

Cinduri, hungry and ragged, is befriended by Godfather Snake, who feeds her delicacies and dresses her in gold cloth and anklets with bells and diamonds, to meet the prince.

Adelita

Adelita
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2002-09-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524737232

Hace mucho tiempo—a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in love with beautiful Adelita, but she disappears from his fiesta at midnight, leaving him with only one clue to her hidden identity: a beautiful rebozo—shawl. With the rebozo in place of a glass slipper, this favorite fairy tale takes a delightful twist. Tomie dePaola's exquisite paintings, filled with the folk art of Mexico, make this a Cinderella story like no other. Please note that the majority of this text is in English, with Spanish vocabulary throughout.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Author: Melissa Walker
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1469616688

Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced labor of enslaved blacks. After Reconstruction, the South became attractive to new industries lured by the region's ongoing commitment to low-wage labor and management-friendly economic policies. Throughout the volume, articles reflect the breadth and variety of southern life, paying particular attention to the region's profound economic transformation in recent decades. The agricultural section consists of 25 thematic entries that explore issues such as Native American agricultural practices, plantations, and sustainable agriculture. Thirty-eight shorter pieces cover key crops of the region--from tobacco to Christmas trees--as well as issues of historic and emerging interest--from insects and insecticides to migrant labor. The section on industry and commerce contains 13 thematic entries in which contributors address topics such as the economic impact of military bases, resistance to industrialization, and black business. Thirty-six topical entries explore particular industries, such as textiles, timber, automobiles, and banking, as well as individuals--including Henry W. Grady and Sam M. Walton--whose ideas and enterprises have helped shape the modern South.

Texas, Cotton, And The New Deal

Texas, Cotton, And The New Deal
Author: Keith Joseph Volanto
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781585444021

Cotton growing-Government policy-Texas-Historly 2. Cotton trade-government policy-Texas-History. 3. New Deal1933-1939-Texas. 4. United States.

Henry Grady's New South

Henry Grady's New South
Author: Harold E. Davis
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2002-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0817311874

Recounts the life and work of Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta constitution in the 1880s, who fervently espoused the New South Movement, promising industrialization for the postbellum South, an improved Southern agriculture, and justice and opportunity for black Southerners. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Up from the Mudsills of Hell

Up from the Mudsills of Hell
Author: Connie L. Lester
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 082032762X

Up from the Mudsills of Hell analyzes agrarian activism in Tennessee from the 1870s to 1915 within the context of farmers’ lives, community institutions, and familial and communal networks. Locating the origins of the agrarian movements in the state’s late antebellum and post-Civil War farm economy, Connie Lester traces the development of rural reform from the cooperative efforts of the Grange, the Agricultural Wheel, and the Farmers’ Alliance through the insurgency of the People’s Party and the emerging rural bureaucracy of the Cooperative Extension Service and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. Lester ties together a rich and often contradictory history of cooperativism, prohibition, disfranchisement, labor conflicts, and third-party politics to show that Tennessee agrarianism was more complex and threatening to the established political and economic order than previously recognized. As farmers reached across gender, racial, and political boundaries to create a mass movement, they shifted the ground under the monoliths of southern life. Once the Democratic Party had destroyed the insurgency, farmers responded in both traditional and progressive ways. Some turned inward, focusing on a localism that promoted--sometimes through violence--rigid adherence to established social boundaries. Others, however, organized into the Farmers’ Union, whose membership infiltrated the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service. Acting through these bureaucracies, Tennessee agrarian leaders exerted an important influence over the development of agricultural legislation for the twentieth century. Up from the Mudsills of Hell not only provides an important reassessment of agrarian reform and radicalism in Tennessee, but also links this Upper South state into the broader sweep of southern and American farm movements emerging in the late nineteenth century.

Second Great Emancipation: Mech.cottonpicker, Black Migration & Modern South (c)

Second Great Emancipation: Mech.cottonpicker, Black Migration & Modern South (c)
Author: Donald Holley
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: African American agricultural laborers
ISBN: 9781610753678

"Development of the mechanical cotton picker not only made possible the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, it helped free the region of Jim Crow laws as political power was relocated from farms to cities and thereby opened the door for the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Just as President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed African Americans from chattel slavery, the mechanical cotton picker freed laborers from the drudgery of the cotton harvest and brought the agricultural South into a period of prosperity."--Jacket

Cinderella Across Cultures

Cinderella Across Cultures
Author: Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081434156X

Readers interested in the visual arts, in translation studies, or in popular culture, as well as a wider audience wishing to discover the tale anew will delight in this collection.