Boll weevil blues : cotton, myth, and power in the American South /
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2011, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Myth making on the cotton frontier
- Cultures of resistance in Texas and Louisiana: tenants make sense of the boll weevil
- 'Map maker, troublemaker, history maker': the boll weevil threatens the Delta
- Delta solutions big and small
- 'The herald of prosperity': the promise of diversification in Alabama
- 'You will be poor and ignorant and your children will be the same': the boll weevil myth transformed
- Cotton's obituaries: the boll weevil in Georgia
- Conclusion: The boll weevil's lost revolution.
