Boll Weevil Blues

Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South, 1892-1930

Autor: James C. Giesen

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South fr...

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Autor

James C. Giesen

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

248

EAN

9780226292878

ISBN

0226292878

Enbook ID

04545120

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

476

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 23

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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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