Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic. Britain, Africa and America, 1900-1920

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Deals with the promotion of raw cotton growing, especially in Africa, and the work of the British Cotton Growing Association in introducing the American model of cotton cultivation into Africa. Scholarly account. Has chapters: 'The cotton crisis - Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to 'Empire Cotton''; ''The Black man's crop' - the British Cotton Growing Association and Africa'; ''The scientific redemption of Africa' - coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture'; ''King Cotton's impoverished retinue' - making cotton a "White man's crop" in the American South'; 'Cotton, development, and the 'Imperial Burden''