Bale after bale : how cotton defined the twentieth-century South / edited by David A. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, David A. (David Alexander), 1975- editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

The American South series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cotton--Economic aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Cotton.

Cotton growing--Southern States--History--20th century.

Cotton growing.

Cotton--Political aspects--United States.

Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2026.

Contents:

Cotton, power, and the twentieth-century US South

The touch, the feel, the sensory history of cotton / Mark M. Smith

"To keep cotton king": the cotton maker's jubilee and the landscapes of African American politics in Memphis / James C. Giesen

Modernizing cotton unionism: the CIO's campaign to organize the cotton industry from field to factory / Jarod Roll

A corporate plantation reading public: labor, literacy, and diaspora in the global Black South / Jarvis C. McInnis

Faulkner's cotton: plantation modernity in Yoknapatawpha County / David A. Davis

"Among the cotton and corn": the poetics of boll weevil ecologies in the cotton South / Margaret Ronda

From cotton fields to Cadillacs: exploring a blues lyric archive / Adam Gussow

The minstrel and the manager: southern legacies in midcentury Hollywood / Robert Jackson

Envoi: bittersweet memoires of childood cotton picking / Adrienne Monteith Petty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version Bale after bale

ISBN:

9780813954752 (electronic bk.)

0813954754 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40033198742

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.