Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0226292851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jesse Lee Webb
Publisher:
Published: 1942
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Louisiana. State Crop Pest Commission
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 7
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick William Mally
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Durward Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And conclusions. pp. 19.