The Life and Times of King Cotton
Author | : David Lewis Cohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Lewis Cohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David L. Cohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gene Dattel |
Publisher | : Government Institutes |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442210192 |
Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and thereby a major driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Sven Beckert |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375713964 |
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
Author | : Harold D. Woodman |
Publisher | : Beard Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781893122512 |
Author | : Harris Dickson |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen H. Yafa |
Publisher | : Viking Canada |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
A history of cotton's impact on the world describes how the fiber has been at the center of conflict and controversy, rendering nations into industrial powers.
Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Author | : Thomas Armstrong |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Cotton farmers |
ISBN | : 9780002214063 |
Beginning in the 1850s, this shows the effect of the American Civil War on people in England, particularly in Lancashire.
Author | : Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
ISBN | : |