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Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South

James C. Giesen

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Description: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 regionOCOs chief cash cropOCotens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars.a 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 SouthOCoas 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 weevilOCOs lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the regionOCothose 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South. To get started finding Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 238

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226292851

Description: 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 regionOCOs chief cash cropOCotens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars.a 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 SouthOCoas 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 weevilOCOs lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the regionOCothose 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South. To get started finding Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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