Author: Robey Wentworth Harned
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020453519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A firsthand account of the devastating effects of the boll weevil infestation in Mississippi in 1909, this book paints a vivid picture of the challenges faced by farmers and agricultural workers during this tumultuous time in American history. By providing a personal perspective on this historical event, Harned offers a unique and valuable insight into the social and economic dynamics of the American South. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Boll Weevil In Mississippi, 1909
Author: Robey Wentworth Harned
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020453519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A firsthand account of the devastating effects of the boll weevil infestation in Mississippi in 1909, this book paints a vivid picture of the challenges faced by farmers and agricultural workers during this tumultuous time in American history. By providing a personal perspective on this historical event, Harned offers a unique and valuable insight into the social and economic dynamics of the American South. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020453519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A firsthand account of the devastating effects of the boll weevil infestation in Mississippi in 1909, this book paints a vivid picture of the challenges faced by farmers and agricultural workers during this tumultuous time in American history. By providing a personal perspective on this historical event, Harned offers a unique and valuable insight into the social and economic dynamics of the American South. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Boll Weevil Blues
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book 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 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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226292851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book 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 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.
Mexican Cotton-boll Weevil
Author: Walter David Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Mexican Cotton-boll Weevil
Author: Francis Marion Webster
Publisher:
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Category : Alfalfa weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
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Category : Alfalfa weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Cotton Boll Weevil
Author: Henry Arthur Dunn
Publisher:
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Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This publication has been assembled to provide researchers with a quick reference to accomplishments in research on the cotton boll weevil and related information published prior to 1961. Researchers are used to use it only as a reference guide and to refer subsequently to the original publication or report.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boll weevil
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This publication has been assembled to provide researchers with a quick reference to accomplishments in research on the cotton boll weevil and related information published prior to 1961. Researchers are used to use it only as a reference guide and to refer subsequently to the original publication or report.
Some Results of Cutting in the Sierra Forests of California
Author: Duncan Dunning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Pp. 24.
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Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Pp. 24.
List of Publications of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
Author: John Wendell Bailey
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Coleoptera: Life Histories and Economic Relations
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Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 1554
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Beetles
Languages : en
Pages : 1554
Book Description
Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Inspection and Analyses of Commercial Feeding Stuffs on Sale in the State
Author: A. B. McKay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description