Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1995 - 280 Seiten For decades after the Civil War, the cottonseed industry played a critical role in the economy of the American South - an importance that previous historical accounts of the region have barely acknowledged. In Cinderella of the New South, Lynette Boney Wrenn fills a major gap in scholarship by tracing the story of the cottonseed industry from its antebellum origins through its transformation during the first half of the twentieth century. |
Inhalt
Beginnings of the American Cottonseed Industry | 1 |
Cottonseed Buying and Selling | 22 |
Cottonseed Crushing | 43 |
CottonseedOil Refining and Manufacturing | 73 |
Organization of the Cottonseed Industry | 86 |
Cottonseed Price Fixing and Politics | 105 |
World War I and Postwar Shocks | 120 |
Competition and Cooperation between the World Wars | 138 |
End of the Hydraulic Era | 162 |
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