Whayne, Jeannie M. (Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
Physical Details: xi + 298 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Whayne (history, U. of Arkansas), who has published and edited other books on Arkansas history, has written an in-depth account of the creation by Robert E. "Lee" Wilson of an enormous conglomeration of plantation operations in Arkansas. A lucid writer, Whayne has formed her account from a wealth of primary sources, including correspondence, newspaper accounts, court records, county and other land surveys, and other archives. Wilson's attitudes towards race are described deliberately and with insight, demonstrating the hardship and systemic inequity of life, pay, housing, and employment for blacks as well as the region's legacy of horrific intimidation and violence. Wilson logged and drained much of the area and this process, the environmental legacy of his activities, and the impact of the drought of 1930 are the subject of separate chapters. Carrying the account through Wilson's death and the new management of his empire by his son, and describing how farming practices were changed in efforts to accommodate flood and other environmental concerns, Whayne covers in fascinating detail the lives and effects on the land of over a century of agricultural activity in the lower Mississippi Delta.
...MoreReview Coclanis, Peter A. (2012) Review of "Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South". Arkansas Historical Quarterly (p. 321).
Similar Citations
Article
Pini, Barbara;
Panelli, Ruth;
Dale-Hallett, Liza;
(2007)
The Victorian Women on Farms Gatherings: A Case Study of the Australian “Women in Agriculture” Movement
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001212376/)
Book
Rogers, Thomas D.;
(2010)
The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001211190/)
Article
Bess, Jennifer;
(2014)
The New Egypt, Pima Cotton, and the Role of Native Wage Labor on the Cooperative Testing and Demonstration Farm, Sacaton, Arizona, 1907--1917
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001421790/)
Article
Anne Effland;
(2021)
Small Farms/Family Farms: Tracing a History of Definitions and Meaning
(/p/isis/citation/CBB720739392/)
Article
Mary Summers;
(2021)
A Dog with a Bone: A Critique of Paul Taylor’s Small-Farm Essentialism
(/p/isis/citation/CBB519115951/)
Book
Richard F. Hirsh;
(2022)
Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification
(/p/isis/citation/CBB557771102/)
Article
Ott, Daniel;
(2014)
Producing a Past: McCormick Harvester and Producer Populists in the 1890s
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001320831/)
Article
Meyer, Carrie A.;
(2013)
The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001320819/)
Book
Michael J. Lansing;
(2015)
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
(/p/isis/citation/CBB453507115/)
Book
Mitchell, Don;
(2012)
They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001421811/)
Article
Lynne Feeley;
(April 2019)
The Elevationists: Gerrit Smith, Black Agrarianism, and Land Reform in 1840s New York
(/p/isis/citation/CBB944344857/)
Book
Robert Wuthnow;
(2015)
In the Blood: Understanding America's Farm Families
(/p/isis/citation/CBB598062857/)
Book
Lucas, Anton E;
Warren, Carol;
(2013)
Land for the People: The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001422260/)
Article
Uekōtter, Frank;
(2014)
Why Panaceas Work: Recasting Science, Knowledge, and Fertilizer Interests in German Agriculture
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001320830/)
Article
Carmona, Juan;
Simpson, James;
(2012)
Explaining Contract Choice: Vertical Coordination, Sharecropping, and Wine in Europe, 1850---1950
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001320068/)
Book
Russell, Peter A.;
(2012)
How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001421803/)
Article
Van Lanen, Amanda;
(2014)
“Where Dollars Grow on Trees”: The Promise and Reality of Irrigated Farming in Central Washington, 1890--1910
(/p/isis/citation/CBB001421793/)
Book
Dvera I. Saxton;
(2021)
The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice
(/p/isis/citation/CBB347232041/)
Book
Lori A. Flores;
(2016)
Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
(/p/isis/citation/CBB947941237/)
Book
Matthew Casey;
(2017)
Empire's Guestworkers: Haitian Migrants in Cuba during the Age of US Occupation
(/p/isis/citation/CBB940663421/)
Be the first to comment!