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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 Cotton Kings
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Author : Kathleen Houston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-28
The Cotton Kings written by Kathleen Houston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with categories.
Cotton was the raw material for an industrial and commercial revolution that changed the face of Britain. This book weaves the stirring stories of the three Wilkie brothers, who moved from Scotland to Liverpool to make their fortune in cotton trading, with the fascinating history of the cotton economy in Britain and America. The Cotton Kings also tells other Wilkie family sagas, including the life stories of tragic Joanna and the influential James, benefactor to his adopted town. Their stories make human the dramatic impact of King Cotton, bringing recent social and economic history to vivid life. This book features photographs from Wilkie family archives.
Cotton Is King
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Author : David Christy
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Release Date : 1855
Cotton Is King written by David Christy and has been published by University of Michigan Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with History categories.
From Smuggling To Cotton Kings
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Author : Michael Janes
language : en
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
Release Date : 2010
From Smuggling To Cotton Kings written by Michael Janes and has been published by Memoirs Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Great Britain categories.
From Smuggling to Cotton Kings is the story of the Greg Family, who helped to shape the economic fortunes of Britain for more than two centuries. It tells of their rise to power and prominence in the fields of textiles, shipping, banking and marine insurance, their role in the industrial revolution and how their fortunes declined in the 20th century. In 1715 John Greg, a descendant of the McGregor clan, sailed from the family home in Ayrshire to seek his fortune in Ulster. He soon built a successful business as a merchant, his own sons becoming successful businessmen. Half a century later two of his grandsons, Thomas and Samuel, sailed back to Britain and founded businesses of their own at opposite ends of England, Thomas in banking and finance, Samuel in textiles. Helped by the patronage and finance of Robert Hyde, Samuel became a prominent figure in the development of the cloth industry. He helped to take the industry forward by investing heavily in the adoption of water power, and founded Quarry Bank Mill in north Cheshire, which today is open to visitors as a National Trust property. Meanwhile brother Thomas made a prudent entry into the marine insurance business, at a time when Britain's overseas trade was expanding at a prodigious rate. By the end of the 18th Century they had built up large fortunes. After a serious setback caused by the economic slump in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th Century, business recovered and by the time brothers died in the 1830s they were both, in today's terms, multi-millionaires. Their descendants kept the family businesses running successfully for several decades and diversified into agriculture, literature and politics, but the 1860s recession saw the end of the great wealth the Gregs and their associates had built up.
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
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Author : Thomas Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1962
King Cotton written by Thomas Armstrong and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Cotton farmers categories.
Beginning in the 1850s, this shows the effect of the American Civil War on people in England, particularly in Lancashire.
King Cotton
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Author : James L. Watkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
King Cotton written by James L. Watkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with categories.
The Life And Times Of King Cotton
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Author : David L. Cohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Life And Times Of King Cotton written by David L. Cohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
The Horrockses Cotton Kings Of Preston
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Author : Margaret Burscough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Horrockses Cotton Kings Of Preston written by Margaret Burscough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This volume gives the history of one of the most famous mill-owning families in the UK - the Horrockses of Preston - who had a huge impact on cotton manufacture in the 19th century.
When Cotton Was King
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Author : Alvin S. Yusin
language : en
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-17
When Cotton Was King written by Alvin S. Yusin and has been published by LifeRich Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Fiction categories.
It is 1795 in Williamsburg, Virginia, as the son of an alcoholic father and bastard mother grows up in poverty. Still, little Andrew Blackstone is resolute to make something of his life—and does years later when he acquires a fortune through illegal slave trade. Determined to achieve economic and social dominance, Andrew eventually marries into the Wellworth family, rich in ancestry but poor in purse. His wife, Rebecca, who was raised by a slave until her father sold her, wants to buy back Momma Jo. When she learns she has died leaving two sons, Michael and Gabriel, Rebecca buys and then frees the boys, prompting Michael to meet John Brown and participate in the Pottawatomie massacre. As the Blackstone family is impacted by other antebellum events that include the Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Rebecca gives birth to twins, Jackson and Arabella. But as tensions increase between the north and south and a civil war looms on the horizon, the Blackstones are all about to learn the power of battle and its ability to not just transform the country, but also their lives and the lives of their descendants.