The Story of Cotton Research in Texas
Title | The Story of Cotton Research in Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Cotton Research Committee of Texas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1967* |
Genre | Cotton |
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Brief Favoring the Establishment in Texas of a Cotton Research Laboratory
Title | Brief Favoring the Establishment in Texas of a Cotton Research Laboratory PDF eBook |
Author | State-wide Cotton Committee of Texas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Cotton |
ISBN |
Seeds of Empire
Title | Seeds of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Torget |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2015-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469624257 |
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.
The Cotton Industry and what it Means to Texas
Title | The Cotton Industry and what it Means to Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Texas. University. Cotton Economic Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Cotton growing |
ISBN |
Cotton on the South Plains
Title | Cotton on the South Plains PDF eBook |
Author | John Taylor Becker |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0738595853 |
Today's cotton production on the South Plains barely resembles the cotton culture of 100 years ago. When cotton first came to the South Plains it was very labor intensive, with every stage of production depending on large amounts of hand labor. The planting, cultivating, and picking or pulling of cotton were all done by hand. Often, the harvested cotton was transported to gins in wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules. Today, due to the many improvements in the industry, most cotton is grown without ever being touched by human hands. The story of cotton on the South Plains is the story of continuous change, improvement, and mechanization.
Vital Facts about the Cotton Industry of Texas
Title | Vital Facts about the Cotton Industry of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Cotton Research Committee of Texas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | Cotton growing and manufacture |
ISBN |
A Statistical Study of the Decrease in the Texas Cotton Crop Due to the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil and the Cotton Acreage of Texas 1899 to 1904 Inclusive
Title | A Statistical Study of the Decrease in the Texas Cotton Crop Due to the Mexican Cotton Boll Weevil and the Cotton Acreage of Texas 1899 to 1904 Inclusive PDF eBook |
Author | Dwight Sanderson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Boll weevil |
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