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Delta empire : Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South / Jeannie Whayne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whayne, Jeannie M., author.
- Series:
- Making the modern South.
- Making the modern South
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmers--Arkansas--Mississippi County--Biography.
- Farmers.
- Plantation owners--Arkansas--Mississippi County--Biography.
- Plantation owners.
- Businessmen--Arkansas--Mississippi County--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Agriculture--Arkansas--Mississippi County--History.
- Agriculture.
- Plantations--Arkansas--Mississippi County--History.
- Plantations.
- Plantation life--Arkansas--Mississippi County--History.
- Plantation life.
- Social change--Arkansas--Mississippi County--History.
- Social change.
- Mississippi County (Ark.)--History.
- Mississippi County (Ark.).
- Mississippi County (Ark.)--Biography.
- Wilson, Lee, 1865-1933.
- Wilson, Lee.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Southern Agriculture Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner, Robert E. ""Lee"" Wilson, in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. Whayne provides a compelling case study of both one man's strategic innovation and the changing economy of South.
- Contents:
- The shaping of the land
- The making of the man
- A river of woe : reshaping the land
- A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era
- Building it of brick and hollow tile
- "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927
- "Get hard and raise hell"
- Changing of the guard
- The return of the "class boy"
- Appendix: Tables.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8071-6401-1
- 0-8071-3857-6
- 0-8071-3856-8
- OCLC:
- 757260996
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