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 50m
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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 50 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Story of the Cotton Plant
2Printed in the United States of America
3CHAPTER II.
4CHAPTER IV.
5CHAPTER VI.
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6CHAPTER VIII.
7CHAPTER IX.
8The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
9FOREWORD
10CHAPTER II
11CHAPTER III
12CHAPTER V
13CHAPTER VI
14VITA
15The early English cotton industry
16PREFACE
17INTRODUCTION
18CHAPTER I THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COTTON MANUFACTURE
19CHAPTER II THE ORGANISATION OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE
20CHAPTER III THE COMING OF MACHINERY: KAY TO ARKWRIGHT
21CHAPTER IV THE OPPOSITION TO THE PATENTS
22CHAPTER V THE MULE AND THE RISE OF A NEW COTTON MANUFACTURE
23CHAPTER VI CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS OF SAMUEL CROMPTON
24CHAPTER VII LETTERS OF SAMUEL CROMPTON
25ADDITIONAL NOTES
26Bremen Cotton Exchange, 1872/1922
27BY
28Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments
29Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments
30PRESIDENT OF PLANTERS' COLLEGE, MISSISSIPPI.
31CHAPTER II.
32CHAPTER VI.
33CHAPTER X.
34CHAPTER XIII.
35CHAPTER XIV.
36CHAPTER XV.
37CHAPTER XVII.
38CHAPTER XVIII.
39APPENDIX.
40TABLE I.
41TABLE III.
42TABLE VII.
43LIBERTY AND SLAVERY:
44MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
45LIBERTY AND SLAVERY:
46INTRODUCTION.
47CHAPTER I.
48CHAPTER II.
49CHAPTER III.
50CHAPTER IV.
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