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Author:
Whayne, Jeannie M.
Title:
Delta empire : Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South / Jeannie Whayne.
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xi, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Wilson, Lee,--1865-1933.
Farmers--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--Biography.
Plantation owners--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--Biography.
Businessmen--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--Biography.
Agriculture--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--History.
Plantations--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--History.
Plantation life--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--History.
Social change--Mississippi County--Mississippi County--History.
Mississippi County (Ark.)--History.
Mississippi County (Ark.)--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The shaping of the land -- The making of the man -- A river of woe : reshaping the land -- A new South entrepreneur in the progressive era -- Building it of brick and hollow tile -- "The wind have changed" : the flood of 1927 -- "Get hard and raise hell" -- Changing of the guard -- The return of the "class boy" -- Appendix: Tables.
Series:
Making the modern South
ISBN:
0807138584 (mobi)
9780807138588 (mobi)
0807138576 (epub)
9780807138571 (epub)
0807138568 (pdf)
9780807138564 (pdf)
080713855X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807138557 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)712644539
LCCN:
2011013606
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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