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Book Land of Cotton

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  • Author : John T. Morgan Academy (Selma, Ala.)
  • Publisher : Wimmer Cookbooks
  • Release : 1988-12
  • ISBN : 9780962053900
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Land of Cotton written by John T. Morgan Academy (Selma, Ala.) and published by Wimmer Cookbooks. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for both the kitchen novice and the experienced cookbook collector. With all the classic Southern favorites, this was mom's secret kitchen weapon and now it can be yours. Benefits school educational activities.

Book Breaking the Land

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  • Author : Pete Daniel
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780252013911
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Breaking the Land written by Pete Daniel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association, 1985. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1985. Winner of the 1990 Robert Athearn Award of the Western History Association and an Honorable Mention for the 1990 James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize in History and the Social Sciences from the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Book In the Land of Cotton

Download or read book In the Land of Cotton written by Dorothy Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of the planting, growing, harvesting, and marketing of cotton is unfolded.

Book In the Land of Cotton

Download or read book In the Land of Cotton written by Michael R. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unredeemed Land

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  • Author : Erin Stewart Mauldin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2018-11-02
  • ISBN : 0190865172
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Unredeemed Land written by Erin Stewart Mauldin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did the Civil War and the emancipation of the South's four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape and the farming economy dependent upon it? An important reconsideration of the Civil War's role in southern history, Unredeemed Land uncovers the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie's 'King Cotton' required extensive land use techniques, fresh soil, and slave-based agriculture in order to remain profitable. But wartime destruction and the rise of the contract labor system closed off those possibilities and necessitated increasingly intensive cultivation in ways that worked against the environment. The resulting disconnect between farmers' use of the land and what the natural environment could support went hand-in-hand with the economic dislocation of freedpeople, poor farmers, and sharecroppers. Drawing on extensive archival and governmental sources as well as scholarship in the natural sciences, Erin Mauldin demonstrates how the Civil War and emancipation accelerated ongoing ecological change in ways that hastened the postbellum collapse of the region's subsistence economy, encouraged the expansion of cotton production, and ultimately kept cotton farmers trapped in a cycle of debt and tenancy. The first environmental history to bridge the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods, this work will appeal to anyone who is interested in the landscape of the South or the legacies of the Civil War"--

Book Empire of Cotton

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  • Author : Sven Beckert
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 0375713964
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Empire of Cotton written by Sven Beckert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Cotton Kingdom

Download or read book The Cotton Kingdom written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie  Or  Great Times in the Land of Cotton

Download or read book Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Or Great Times in the Land of Cotton written by Alice B. Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Fielding and her friends travel to the South. They are falsely accused of stealing.

Book A Little Piece of Ground

Download or read book A Little Piece of Ground written by Elizabeth Laird and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In response to a Palestinian suicide bombing, the Israeli military subjects the West Bank town to a virtual siege. Meanwhile, Karim, trapped at home with his teenage brother and fearful parents, longs to play football with his friends. When the curfew ends, he and his friend discover an unused patch of ground that’s the perfect site for a football pitch. Nearby, an old car hidden intact under bulldozed building makes a brilliant den. But in this city there’s constant danger, even for schoolboys. And when Israeli soldiers find Karim outside during the next curfew, it seems impossible that he will survive. This powerful book fills a substantial gap in existing young adult literature on the Middle East. With 23,000 copies already sold in the United Kingdom and Canada, this book is sure to find a wide audience among young adult readers in the United States.

Book Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Download or read book Becoming Free in the Cotton South written by Susan Eva O'Donovan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, Susan Eva O’Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.This boldly argued work focuses on a small place—the southwest corner of Georgia—in order to explicate a big question: how did black men and black women’s experiences in slavery shape their lives in freedom? The reality of slavery’s demise is harsh: in this land where cotton was king, the promise of Reconstruction passed quickly, even as radicalism crested and swept the rest of the South. Ultimately, the lives former slaves made for themselves were conditioned and often constrained by what they had endured in bondage. O’Donovan’s significant scholarship does not diminish the heroic efforts of black Americans to make their world anew; rather, it offers troubling but necessary insight into the astounding challenges they faced.Becoming Free in the Cotton South is a moving and intimate narrative, drawing upon a multiplicity of sources and individual stories to provide new understanding of the forces that shaped both slavery and freedom, and of the generation of African Americans who tackled the passage that lay between.

Book The Land of Cotton

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  • Author : Ryana Lynn Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780986348334
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Land of Cotton written by Ryana Lynn Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seas of Gold  Seas of Cotton

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  • Author : Martha L. Keber
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780820323602
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Seas of Gold Seas of Cotton written by Martha L. Keber and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739-1825) was the son of an impoverished Bréton aristocrat. Breaking social convention to engage in trade, he began his long career first as a cabin boy in the navy of the French India Company and later as a sea captain and privateer. After retiring from the sea, DuBignon lived in France as a "bourgeois noble" with income from land, moneylending, and manufacturing. Uprooted by the French Revolution, DuBignon fled to Georgia late in 1790, settling among other refugees from France and the Caribbean. A community long overlooked by historians of the American South, this circle of planters, nobles, and bourgeois was bound together by language, a shared faith, and the émigré experience. On his Jekyll Island slave plantation, DuBignon learned to cultivate cotton. However, he underwrote his new life through investments on both sides of the Atlantic, extending his business ties to Charleston, Liverpool, and Nantes. None of his ventures, Martha L. Keber notes, compelled DuBignon to dwell long on the inconsistencies between his entrepreneurial drive and his noble heritage. His worldview always remained aristocratic, patriarchal, and conservative. DuBignon's passage of eighty-six years took him from a tradition-bound Europe to the entrepôts of the Indian Ocean to the plantation culture of a Georgia barrier island. Wherever he went, commerce was the constant. Based on Keber's exhaustive research in European, African, and American archives, Seas of Gold, Seas of Cotton portrays a resilient nobleman so well schooled in the principles of the marketplace that he prospered in the Old World and the New.

Book Unredeemed Land

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  • Author : Erin Stewart Mauldin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-05
  • ISBN : 0190865180
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Unredeemed Land written by Erin Stewart Mauldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the Civil War's profound impact on southern history, Unredeemed Land traces the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie's "King Cotton" required extensive land use techniques across large swaths of acreage, fresh soil, and slave-based agriculture in order to remain profitable. But wartime destruction and the rise of the contract labor system closed off those possibilities and necessitated increasingly intensive methods of cultivation that worked against the environment. The resulting disconnect between farmers' use of the land and what the natural environment could support intensified the economic dislocation of freed people, poor farmers, and sharecroppers. Erin Stewart Mauldin demonstrates how the Civil War and emancipation accelerated ongoing ecological change in ways that hastened the postbellum collapse of the region's subsistence economy, encouraged the expansion of cotton production, and ultimately kept cotton farmers trapped in a cycle of debt and tenancy. The first environmental history to bridge the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods, Unredeemed Land powerfully examines the ways military conflict and emancipation left enduring ecological legacies.

Book Cotton Production and Distribution in the Gulf Southwest

Download or read book Cotton Production and Distribution in the Gulf Southwest written by Elma S. Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dreamland Burning

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  • Author : Jennifer Latham
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2017-02-21
  • ISBN : 0316384941
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Dreamland Burning written by Jennifer Latham and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

Book Chained to the Land

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  • Author : Lynette Ater Tanner
  • Publisher : Blair
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780895876263
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Chained to the Land written by Lynette Ater Tanner and published by Blair. This book was released on 2014 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-person narratives of former Louisiana slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.

Book Lyrics from Cotton Land

Download or read book Lyrics from Cotton Land written by John Charles McNeill and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: