Legacy of Cotton: A Collection of Seven Informative Books
Seven Studies of Plantation Labor, Textile Mills, Trade Networks, and Social ChangeBy John T. Taylor, Frederick Wilkinson, George Howard Alford, Broadus Mitchell, George W. Daniels, Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
Length69h 37m
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Legacy of Cotton: A Collection of Seven Informative Books assembles a wide-ranging body of writing on a commodity whose history reaches into agriculture, industry, commerce, labor, and social transformation. Across its seven constituent books, the collection offers varied explanatory modes—from historical narrative and economic inquiry to cultural observation and institutional analysis—inviting readers to consider cotton not merely as a crop but as a force shaping modern life. Its breadth is its distinguishing strength: studies of production, trade, regional development, and the human consequences of cotton's global circulation are placed in productive relation. The contributing writers—John T. Taylor, Frederick Wilkinson, George Howard Alford, Broadus Mitchell, George W. Daniels, and Andreas Wilhelm Cramer—bring distinct scholarly and historical sensibilities to the subject. Collectively, their works situate cotton within the major currents of agrarian history, industrialization, imperial and transnational exchange, and debates over labor and economic power. Rather than presenting a single interpretive line, the volume preserves the productive differences among its voices, enabling a fuller understanding of how cotton linked local landscapes to international systems. Recommended for students, researchers, and general readers of economic, social, and material history, this volume provides an unusually rich opportunity to trace one subject across multiple perspectives and styles. It rewards sustained reading by fostering dialogue among its texts and by demonstrating cotton's enduring importance to the study of modern societies.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length69 hrs 37 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of the Cotton Plant
2The Story of the Cotton Plant
3Printed in the United States of America
4CHAPTER II.
5CHAPTER IV.
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6CHAPTER VI.
7CHAPTER VIII.
8CHAPTER IX.
9The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
10The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
11FOREWORD
12CHAPTER II
13CHAPTER III
14CHAPTER V
15CHAPTER VI
16VITA
17The early English cotton industry
18PREFACE
19INTRODUCTION
20CHAPTER I THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COTTON MANUFACTURE
21CHAPTER II THE ORGANISATION OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE
22CHAPTER III THE COMING OF MACHINERY: KAY TO ARKWRIGHT
23CHAPTER IV THE OPPOSITION TO THE PATENTS
24CHAPTER V THE MULE AND THE RISE OF A NEW COTTON MANUFACTURE
25CHAPTER VI CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS OF SAMUEL CROMPTON
26CHAPTER VII LETTERS OF SAMUEL CROMPTON
27ADDITIONAL NOTES
28Bremen Cotton Exchange, 1872/1922
29Bremen Cotton Exchange, 1872/1922
30BY
31Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments
32Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments
33PRESIDENT OF PLANTERS' COLLEGE, MISSISSIPPI.
34CHAPTER II.
35CHAPTER VI.
36CHAPTER X.
37CHAPTER XIII.
38CHAPTER XIV.
39CHAPTER XV.
40CHAPTER XVII.
41CHAPTER XVIII.
42APPENDIX.
43TABLE I.
44TABLE III.
45TABLE VII.
46LIBERTY AND SLAVERY:
47CHAPTER III. (pt. 1)
48CHAPTER III. (pt. 2)
49CHAPTER IV.
50CHAPTER V.
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