Cinderella of the new South : a history of the cottonseed industry, 1855-1955 / Lynette Boney Wrenn.
Material type: TextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 280 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0870498827 (alk. paper)
- 9780870498824 (alk. paper)
- HD9093.U6 S688 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-267) and index.
Beginnings of the American cottonseed industry -- Expansion of cottonseed milling in the South -- Cottonseed buying and selling -- Cottonseed crushing -- Cottonseed-oil refining and manufacturing -- Organization of the cottonseed industry -- Cottonseed price fixing and politics -- World War I and postwar shocks -- Competition and cooperation between the world wars -- End of the hydraulic era -- The new industry and the new South.