Inventing the cotton gin : machine and myth in antebellum America
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TS1585 .L35 2003
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TS1585 .L35 2003
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| General Shelving - 3rd Floor | TS1585 .L35 2003 | On Shelf |
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Physical Desc
xiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
UPC
99807070710
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index.
Description
"In Inventing the Cotton Gin, Angela Lakwete explores the history of the cotton gin as part of global history and as an artifact of southern industrial development. She examines gin invention and innovation in Asia and Africa from the earliest evidence to the seventeenth century, when British colonizers introduced an Asian hand-cranked roller gin to the Americas.
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Lakwete shows how indentured British, and later enslaved Africans, built and used foot-powered models to process the cotton they grew for export. After Eli Whitney patented his wire-toothed gin, southern mechanics transformed it into the saw gin, offering stiff competition to northern manufacturers.
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Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin - correctly understood - supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized."--Jacket.
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SACFinal081324
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lakwete, A. (2003). Inventing the cotton gin: machine and myth in antebellum America . The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lakwete, Angela, 1949-. 2003. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lakwete, Angela, 1949-. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Lakwete, A. (2003). Inventing the cotton gin: machine and myth in antebellum america. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lakwete, Angela. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
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