… ¹ All along through the seventeenth century and early half of the eighteenth, we find mention by travelers and others of the cultivation of the cotton plant: in Virginia in 1649; in South …
G Wright - The Journal of Economic History, 1974 - cambridge.org
… her place in the international cotton market during the late … cotton famine of 1861-65, acted to displace Americancotton in … economic expansion forced Americancotton to compete with …
… , A ShortHistory of American … American Revolution, while only a small part ofthe South's fall line region was even sparsely settled at that time. The major part of the South's prime cotton-…
… on the AmericanSouth and the attempts for US … story about the financing of the Louisiana Purchase, he vastly overstates the importance of territorial expansion for antebellum UScotton …
… Fite brings to the present study a distinguished career in scholarship on American … agriculture in the post-Civil War South, no general history of southern farming since the end of slavery …
S DeCanio - The Journal of Economic History, 1973 - cambridge.org
… supply of wheat in the UnitedStates.It appears that either price expectations or actual plantings were adjusted very rapidly by both southerncotton farmers and western wheat farmers, …
… of Americancotton to Great Britain, the world's leading cotton … than 1 per cent of American cotton was exported to Britain, … the southern states for raw cotton. In 1878, the percentage of …
… Mention of the AmericanSouth conjures vivid images, which are stronger than for any of the … The plantation is also among the most misunderstood institutions of Americanhistory. The …
… in history. The moment of rational regret is fleeting, however, for none of us would abandon historical … plant of the lower South and later of the entire short-staple cotton producing world. …