King cotton in modern America : a cultural, political, and economic history since 1945 / / D. Clayton Brown.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Brown, D. Clayton 1941-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 440 p., [14] p. of plates :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Prologue : the power of cotton
• The cultural image of cotton, 1945
• The new politics of cotton
• The cotton conference
• A new era begins
• Ambassadors of foreign policy, 1945-1950
• The dinner table war : postwar struggles
• The South transformed : cotton's mechanization, 1945-1970
• The white gold rush : cotton moves West
• Boll weevils, worms, and moths : a hundred-year war
• Memphis : the epicenter of the Cotton Belt
• "The fabric of our lives" : cotton incorporated
• The Texas plains : America's cotton patch
• The question of subsidies
• Crop lien to futures : financing cotton
• The role of textiles
• Research : the key to viability
• Challenges anew
• The globalization of cotton
• The new cotton culture.