Author: BROOKS, C.P.
Title: Cotton. Its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market .. manufacture of cotton seed oil .. especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States.
Description: NY, Spon and Lowell Mass, the author 1898. Octavo illustrated green cloth (a little rubbed); 384pp and errata slip, folding map, folding table and 175 photo illustrations, wood engravings &c. ¶ Copiously illustrated at "considerable expense" and "one of the best illustrated textile books of recent years" says the author, and so it is. An excellent compendium of knowledge and practice in the American cotton industry at the end of the 19th century - and a fine social document, recording the working lives and conditions of 'white trash' or 'crackers' and blacks in the southern states. The author seems to lament the passing of slavery: "the hardworking, civil, virtuous, well trained 'auntie' and 'uncle' of 'befoh the wah' times is fast disappearing ... and their place is being taken by an undesirable class of lighter colored, lazier, and more thriftless colored people".
Keywords: agriculture technology economic botany c19th textiles manufactures America trades race racism
Title: Cotton. Its uses, varieties, fibre structure, cultivation, and preparation for the market .. manufacture of cotton seed oil .. especial reference to cotton growing, ginning, and oil pressing in the United States.
Description: NY, Spon and Lowell Mass, the author 1898. Octavo illustrated green cloth (a little rubbed); 384pp and errata slip, folding map, folding table and 175 photo illustrations, wood engravings &c. ¶ Copiously illustrated at "considerable expense" and "one of the best illustrated textile books of recent years" says the author, and so it is. An excellent compendium of knowledge and practice in the American cotton industry at the end of the 19th century - and a fine social document, recording the working lives and conditions of 'white trash' or 'crackers' and blacks in the southern states. The author seems to lament the passing of slavery: "the hardworking, civil, virtuous, well trained 'auntie' and 'uncle' of 'befoh the wah' times is fast disappearing ... and their place is being taken by an undesirable class of lighter colored, lazier, and more thriftless colored people".
Keywords: agriculture technology economic botany c19th textiles manufactures America trades race racism
Price: AUD 125.00 = appr. US$ 86.48 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 7423
- Book number: 7423