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How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

Series: The American South Series

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From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of... Read More

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From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture

There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined nearly every aspect of life in the region. In Bale After Bale, leading historians and cultural critics offer multifaceted examinations and multimedia approaches to understanding the place of cotton in the twentieth-century South.

The essays in this collection examine the history of the hands that picked and processed cotton, the communities who celebrated cotton, the unions who organized cotton workers, the connections between cotton farmers in the South and banana farmers in Latin America, the portrayal of cotton in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the poems and songs of the boll weevil, the role of cotton in blues music, the depiction of cotton on the silver screen, and the memories of people displaced by mechanical cotton pickers. As these essays demonstrate, understanding the nature of cotton's persistence into the twentieth century and the decline of the cotton economy are crucial to understanding the contemporary South and today's United States.

Series: The American South Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780813954738

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 April 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Virginia Press

Illustration: 6 b&w illus

Contributors:

Contributions by Mark Smith
Edited by David A. Davis
Contributions by Robert Jackson
Contributions by Jarvis C. McInnis
Contributions by James C. Giesen
Contributions by Adam Gussow
Contributions by Adrienne Petty
Contributions by Jarod Roll
Contributions by Margaret Ronda

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 542g

Pages: 276

Collections

American & Canadian History Biography & Memoir History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: The American South Series

About the Author

David A. Davis is Professor of English at Mercer University and the author of Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature.

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