King Cotton His Retainers
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King Cotton And His Retainers
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Author : Harold D. Woodman
language : en
Publisher: Beard Books
Release Date : 2000
King Cotton And His Retainers written by Harold D. Woodman and has been published by Beard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
King Cotton His Retainers
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Author : Harold D. Woodman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington : University of Kentucky Press
Release Date : 1968
King Cotton His Retainers written by Harold D. Woodman and has been published by Lexington : University of Kentucky Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Cotton trade categories.
King Cotton In International Trade
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Author : Meredith A. Taylor Black
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-05-19
King Cotton In International Trade written by Meredith A. Taylor Black and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Business & Economics categories.
In King Cotton in International Trade Meredith A. Taylor Black provides a comprehensive analysis of the WTO Cotton dispute and its significant jurisprudential and negotiating effect on disciplining and containing the negative effects of highly trade-distorting agricultural subsidies of developed countries.
King Cotton S Advocate
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Author : Lawrence J. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1999
King Cotton S Advocate written by Lawrence J. Nelson and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"One of the largest cotton planters in the United States, Oscar G. Johnston of Mississippi (1880-1955) became King Cotton's most effective advocate during the New Deal era. Nelson explores Johnston's long career and the critical role he played in shaping public policy toward a vital but depressed industry". -- Jacket.
The Cotton Kings
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Author : Bruce E. Baker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Cotton Kings written by Bruce E. Baker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Business & Economics categories.
"The Cotton Kings relates a rip-roaring drama of competition in the marketplace and reveals the damage markets can cause when they do not work properly. It also explains how they can be fixed through careful regulation. At the turn of the twentieth century, cotton was still the major agricultural product of the American South and an important commodity for world industry. Key to marketing cotton were futures contracts, traded at exchanges in New York and New Orleans. Futures contracts had the potential to hedge risk and reduce price volatility, but only if the markets in which they were traded worked properly. Increasing corruption on the powerful New York Cotton Exchange pushed prices steadily downwards in the 1890s, impoverishing millions of cotton farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to solve the problem with better crop predictions and market information, shared equally and simultaneously with all participants, but these efforts failed. To fight the cotton market's corruption, cotton brokers in New Orleans, led by William P. Brown and Frank Hayne, began quietly to assemble resources. They triumphed in the summer of 1903, when they cornered the world market in cotton and raised its price to reflect the reality of increasing demand and struggling supply. The brokers' success pushed up the price of cotton for the next ten years. However, the structural problems of self-regulation by market participants still threatened the cotton trade. More corruption at the New York Cotton Exchange appeared, until eventually political pressure inspired the Cotton Futures Act of 1914, the federal government's first successful regulation of a financial derivative"--
The Emergence Of The Cotton Kingdom In The Old Southwest
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Author : John Hebron Moore
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
The Emergence Of The Cotton Kingdom In The Old Southwest written by John Hebron Moore and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with History categories.
The Old South's Cotton Kingdom arose simultaneously in two widely separated localities, the backcountry of the South Atlantic states and the east bank of the Mississippi River. Spreading from these places of origin and later merging, the east and west branches of the upland short-staple cotton industry developed along similar lines until the Civil War.John Hebron Moore's The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770--1860 traces the evolution of cotton culture in the region bordering the Mississippi River. Moore examines the society supported by that industry, emphasizing technological changes that transformed cotton plantations into agricultural equivalents of factories and slaves into Mule-drawn equipment led to the introduction of improved methods of managing plantation slaves, and that in turn altered the nature of plantation slavery significantly.Moore focuses on Mississippi as both the pioneer cotton state of the Old Southwest and the Old South's leading producer of cotton between 1835 and 1860. Progressive planters made major contributions ot the success of the antebellum upland cotton industry, including the breeding of superior varieties of cotton, the introduction of improved farm implements and machinery, the development of effective methods of combating soil erosion, and systems for managing slaves based upon incentives rather than coercion. In addition, unlike other studies of antebellum southern agriculture, this book examines the contributions to the success of cotton industry made by steamboats and railroads, manufacturing establishments, and the urban population.
Forgotten Time
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Author : John C. Willis
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000
Forgotten Time written by John C. Willis and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.
River Of Dark Dreams
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Author : Walter Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-26
River Of Dark Dreams written by Walter Johnson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-26 with History categories.
River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.
Cotton And Race In The Making Of America
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Author : Gene Dattel
language : en
Publisher: Government Institutes
Release Date : 2009-09-16
Cotton And Race In The Making Of America written by Gene Dattel and has been published by Government Institutes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-16 with History categories.
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.
The Takeover
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Author : Monica R. Gisolfi
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2017-04-15
The Takeover written by Monica R. Gisolfi and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms. Gisolfi argues that the inequalities inherent in the structure of modern poultry farming have led to steep human and environmental costs. Agribusiness firms—many of them descended from the cotton-era South’s furnishing merchants—brought farmers into a system of feed-conversion contracts that placed all production decisions in the hands of the poultry corporations but at least half of the capital risks on the farmers. Along the way, the federal government aided and abetted—sometimes unwittingly—the consolidation of power by poultry firms through direct and indirect subsidies and favorable policies. Drawing on USDA files, oral history, congressional records, and poultry publications, Gisolfi puts a local face on one of the twentieth century’s silent agribusiness revolutions.