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Book Boll Weevil Blues

    Book Details:
  • Author : James C. Giesen
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 0226292851
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Boll Weevil Blues written by James C. Giesen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Boll weevil Problem

Download or read book The Boll weevil Problem written by Walter David Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thank God for Boll Weevils

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rhett Barbaree
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-09-12
  • ISBN : 9781722915865
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Thank God for Boll Weevils written by Rhett Barbaree and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why there is a statue dedicated to the boll weevil in downtown Enterprise, Alabama? Here's the story behind it- how cotton was king in the south... but the invasion of an insect threatened the entire economy of the south. The foresight of one man, who listened to what God told him, and those who had the faith to listen to what he had to say- that one decision changed the way a generation farmed and raised their families, and ultimately kept an entire generation from being destroyed.

Book The Cotton Boll Weevil

Download or read book The Cotton Boll Weevil written by Franklin Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cotton Or Boll Weevils

Download or read book Cotton Or Boll Weevils written by Jesse Lee Webb and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication tells the important facts about the weevil--what it looks like, how it lives, how it grows, the damage it does, and the different ways of controlling it commonly used. Written in simple language, it is intended especially for boys and girls, although it should be useful also to grown-ups who want to learn about the weevil and extension workers also should find this publication of value in teaching the necessary facts about boll weevil control.

Book The Boll Weevil Complex in Arizona

Download or read book The Boll Weevil Complex in Arizona written by Robert Eaton Fye and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Birds Known to Eat the Boll Weevil

Download or read book Birds Known to Eat the Boll Weevil written by Vernon Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boll Weevil Problem

Download or read book The Boll Weevil Problem written by Walter David Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boll Weevils

Download or read book Boll Weevils written by Jonathan Kravetz and published by PowerKids Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle of boll weevils.

Book Chemosterilization of the Boll Weevil

Download or read book Chemosterilization of the Boll Weevil written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexican Cotton boll Weevil  Anthonomus Grandis Boh

Download or read book Mexican Cotton boll Weevil Anthonomus Grandis Boh written by Leland Ossian Howard and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cotton Boll Weevil in Tennessee

Download or read book The Cotton Boll Weevil in Tennessee written by Gordon Mansir Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boll Weevil in Oklahoma

Download or read book Boll Weevil in Oklahoma written by Charles Emerson Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Boll Weevil  Anthonomus Grandis Boh

Download or read book Boll Weevil Anthonomus Grandis Boh written by Norman Mitlin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: