The Boll Weevil Ball
Title | The Boll Weevil Ball PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2002-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780805067125 |
When a very, very small beetle decides to attend a ball, he won't let anything stop him -- not even the danger of being squished on the dance floor.
Hearings
Title | Hearings PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Agricultural Appropriations
Title | Agricultural Appropriations PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Billy Boll Weevil
Title | Billy Boll Weevil PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Maddox |
Publisher | Strode Publishers |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1976-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780873970976 |
When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
Discussion and Lesson Starters
Title | Discussion and Lesson Starters PDF eBook |
Author | Youth Specialties |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780310220336 |
This compilation of how-to ideas for youth promotion, publicity, advertising, fundraising, announcements, administration, bulletin boards, flyers, and all kinds of tricks of the trade will be a worthy addition to your youth ministry library and come to you from The Ideas Library.
Agricultural Appropriation Bill, 1925, Hearings Before ... 68-1, on H.R. 7220
Title | Agricultural Appropriation Bill, 1925, Hearings Before ... 68-1, on H.R. 7220 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Boll Weevil Blues
Title | Boll Weevil Blues PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Giesen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226292851 |
Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.