Delta empire [electronic resource] : Lee Wilson and the transformation of agriculture in the new South / Jeannie Whayne.
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TextSeries: Making the modern SouthPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 298 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., portsSubject(s): - Wilson, Lee, 1865-1933
- Farmers -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- Biography
- Plantation owners -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- Biography
- Businessmen -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- Biography
- Agriculture -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- History
- Plantations -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- History
- Plantation life -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- History
- Social change -- Arkansas -- Mississippi County -- History
- Mississippi County (Ark.) -- History
- Mississippi County (Ark.) -- Biography
- 976.7/05092 B 22
- F417.M58 W47 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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