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Big cotton : how a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map / Stephen Yafa.
Lippincott Library HD9875 .Y34 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yafa, Stephen H., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton textile industry--United States--History.
- Cotton textile industry.
- Cotton manufacture--United States--History.
- Cotton manufacture.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Cotton: the biography of a revolutionary fiber.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, [2005]
- Summary:
- From its infancy in Peru and Pakistan 6,000 years ago to the fields of the antebellum South to its current association with big name clothiers, Yafa tells the epic story of how a humble fiber created fortunes, wrecked civilizations, and put America on the map.
- Contents:
- Spun in all directions
- Star turns
- The barber from Preston
- Revolutionary fiber
- Camelot on the Merrimack
- Looming conflicts
- Southern exposure
- Changing fortunes
- Two-horse power
- Boll weevil blues
- The shirts on your back
- Fields of conflict.
- Notes:
- Paperback edition has title: Cotton: the biography of a revolutionary fiber.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-380) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0670033677
- OCLC:
- 56329432
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