King Cotton II

King Cotton II
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Publisher : Outskirts Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781977274939
ISBN-13 : 1977274935
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis King Cotton II by : Richard A. Noble

In the spring of 2023, a Kentucky farmer noticed the furrows behind his plow begin to sparkle in the sun. He had just inadvertently unearthed hundreds of Confederate gold coins, the newest from 1863. No one knows how or why they were there. Well, one man does. Cotton trader, photographer, philanderer, and Civil War veteran (having served with dubious distinction on both sides), Jack Bailey is back in King Cotton II – Kentucky Gold. Picking up exactly where King Cotton ends, just moments after Lincoln’s assassination, Bailey flees Washington justifiably fearing that he’ll be implicated. During his ensuing travels he encounters many of the famous characters of the day, such as Jefferson Davis, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson, Frank and Jesse James, and Buffalo Bill Cody. Prior acquaintances, including Allan Pinkerton, Ulysses S. Grant, distiller John Beam, and P.T. Barnum return. As usual, Bailey’s exploits place him at many notable historic events, including the first quick draw gunfight in the old west, herding longhorn up the Old Chisholm Trail, one of the earliest train robberies in America, Black Friday of September 1869, and the Battle of Beecher Island, Colorado. True to form, he finds himself in various boudoirs along the way, entertaining ladies that range from famous actresses to borderline sociopaths. As it was in King Cotton, all of the events, timelines, and most of the characters in this sequel are real.

Cotton and Race in the Making of America

Cotton and Race in the Making of America
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Publisher : Government Institutes
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9781442210196
ISBN-13 : 1442210192
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Cotton and Race in the Making of America by : Gene Dattel

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and thereby a major driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.

America, a History

America, a History
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 586
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081687372
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis America, a History by : Robert Mackenzie

The American Cyclopaedia

The American Cyclopaedia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 832
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000023779655
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Cyclopaedia by : George Ripley

The American Cyclopædia

The American Cyclopædia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 830
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101042847937
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Cyclopædia by : George Ripley

Cotton Literature

Cotton Literature
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : UCBK:C118501216
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Cotton Literature by :

Cotton Literature

Cotton Literature
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : MINN:30000010187296
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Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Cotton Literature by : Emily L. Day

The Other Side of Color

The Other Side of Color
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Publisher : Pomegranate
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780764914553
ISBN-13 : 0764914553
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Other Side of Color by : David C. Driskell

This volume presents selections from the highly-respected Cosby collection of African American art. Their introductions elaborate on their strong belief that African American families should themselves seek to preserve their cultural history and not rely on the mainstream. They also provide interesting background about how they began their collection and what owning the art has meant to them. The essay by Driskell (curator, author, and scholar) places each artist within the context of his or her era from the late 1700s to the present, and explores the historical, biographical, social, and political background of each period. Also contains biographies of the artists. Beautifully illustrated with 91 color plates and several other illustrations. Oversize: 10.25x13.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The White Scourge

The White Scourge
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 370
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0520918525
ISBN-13 : 9780520918528
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The White Scourge by : Neil Foley

In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1940s, bridges the intellectual chasm between African American and Southern history on one hand and Chicano and Southwestern history on the other. The White Scourge describes a unique borderlands region, where the cultures of the South, West, and Mexico overlap, to provide a deeper understanding of the process of identity formation and to challenge the binary opposition between "black" and "white" that often dominates discussions of American race relations. In Texas, which by 1890 had become the nation's leading cotton-producing state, the presence of Mexican sharecroppers and farm workers complicated the black-white dyad that shaped rural labor relations in the South. With the transformation of agrarian society into corporate agribusiness, white racial identity began to fracture along class lines, further complicating categories of identity. Foley explores the "fringe of whiteness," an ethno-racial borderlands comprising Mexicans, African Americans, and poor whites, to trace shifting ideologies and power relations. By showing how many different ethnic groups are defined in relation to "whiteness," Foley redefines white racial identity as not simply a pinnacle of status but the complex racial, social, and economic matrix in which power and privilege are shared. Foley skillfully weaves archival material with oral history interviews, providing a richly detailed view of everyday life in the Texas cotton culture. Addressing the ways in which historical categories affect the lives of ordinary people, The White Scourge tells the broader story of racial identity in America; at the same time it paints an evocative picture of a unique American region. This truly multiracial narrative touches on many issues central to our understanding of American history: labor and the role of unions, gender roles and their relation to ethnicity, the demise of agrarian whiteness, and the Mexican-American experience.