The Cotton Industry And What It Means To Texas
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Cotton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Cotton trade |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Neil Foley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1998-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520918528 |
In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1940s, bridges the intellectual chasm between African American and Southern history on one hand and Chicano and Southwestern history on the other. The White Scourge describes a unique borderlands region, where the cultures of the South, West, and Mexico overlap, to provide a deeper understanding of the process of identity formation and to challenge the binary opposition between "black" and "white" that often dominates discussions of American race relations. In Texas, which by 1890 had become the nation's leading cotton-producing state, the presence of Mexican sharecroppers and farm workers complicated the black-white dyad that shaped rural labor relations in the South. With the transformation of agrarian society into corporate agribusiness, white racial identity began to fracture along class lines, further complicating categories of identity. Foley explores the "fringe of whiteness," an ethno-racial borderlands comprising Mexicans, African Americans, and poor whites, to trace shifting ideologies and power relations. By showing how many different ethnic groups are defined in relation to "whiteness," Foley redefines white racial identity as not simply a pinnacle of status but the complex racial, social, and economic matrix in which power and privilege are shared. Foley skillfully weaves archival material with oral history interviews, providing a richly detailed view of everyday life in the Texas cotton culture. Addressing the ways in which historical categories affect the lives of ordinary people, The White Scourge tells the broader story of racial identity in America; at the same time it paints an evocative picture of a unique American region. This truly multiracial narrative touches on many issues central to our understanding of American history: labor and the role of unions, gender roles and their relation to ethnicity, the demise of agrarian whiteness, and the Mexican-American experience.
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.
Author | : Eric F. Hequet |
Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780896725904 |
An essential reference for anyone searching for ways to avoid or mitigate the problem of cotton stickiness.
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.
Author | : Texas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Agricultural laws and legislation |
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