Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Cotton Crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the Turn to “Empire Cotton”
- 2 “The Black Man's Crop”: The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa
- 3 “The Scientific Redemption of Africa”: Coercion and Regulation in Colonial Agriculture
- 4 “King Cotton's Impoverished Retinue”: Making Cotton a “White Man's Crop” in the American South
- 5 Cotton, Development, and the “Imperial Burden”
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Cotton Crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the Turn to “Empire Cotton”
- 2 “The Black Man's Crop”: The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa
- 3 “The Scientific Redemption of Africa”: Coercion and Regulation in Colonial Agriculture
- 4 “King Cotton's Impoverished Retinue”: Making Cotton a “White Man's Crop” in the American South
- 5 Cotton, Development, and the “Imperial Burden”
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Cotton and Race across the AtlanticBritain, Africa, and America, 1900–1920, pp. 269 - 290Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016