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.

Seeds of Empire

Seeds of Empire
Author: Andrew J. Torget
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469624257

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

Cotton

Cotton
Author: C. Wayne Smith
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 882
Release: 1999-08-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471180456

Here is a vital new source of "need-to-know" information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies.

Cotton and Conquest

Cotton and Conquest
Author: Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2013-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806188928

This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the Jeffersonian era, Cotton and Conquest stretches from 1790 through the end of the Civil War, weaving international commerce, American party politics, technological innovation, Indian-white relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic, and political events into the tapestry of Texas history. The innumerable dots the author deftly connects take the story far beyond Texas. Kennedy begins with a detailed chronicle of the commerce linking British and French textile mills and merchants with Southern cotton plantations. When the cotton states seceded from the Union, they overestimated British and French dependence on Southern cotton. As a result, the Southern plantocracy believed that the British would continue supporting the use of slaves in order to sustain the supply of cotton—a miscalculation with dire consequences for the Confederacy. As cartographers and surveyors located boundaries specified in new international treaties and alliances, they violated earlier agreements with Indian tribes. The Indians were to be displaced yet again, now from Texas cotton lands. The plantation system was thus a prime mover behind Indian removal, Kennedy shows, and it yielded power and riches for planters, bankers, merchants, millers, land speculators, Indian-fighting generals and politicians, and slave traders. In Texas, at the plantation system’s farthest geographic reach, cotton scored its last triumphs. No one who seeks to understand the complex history of Texas can overlook this book.

Agriculture Code

Agriculture Code
Author: Texas
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1982
Genre: Agricultural laws and legislation
ISBN:

The Cotton Industry in the United States

The Cotton Industry in the United States
Author: Wilmoth Charles McArthur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1980
Genre: Cotton growing
ISBN:

CHANGES IN U.S. COTTON PRODUCTION PATTERNS; AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS AFFECTING COTTON; COTTON PRODUCTION PRACTICES AND COSTS; COTTON MARKETING SERVICES FROM FARM TO TEXTILE MILL; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COTTON MARKETING; DEVELOPMENT OF U.S. TEXTILE INDUSTRY; CONSUMPTION OF COTTON.

Bale O' Cotton

Bale O' Cotton
Author: Karen Gerhardt Britton
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780890965108

Fact and fiction about the process that takes cotton from the field to shipping to market.