[PDF.40ql] Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (Making the Modern South)

Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (Making the Modern South)

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Modern-day King and His Kingdom|By Customer|It's hard to imagine an individual owning so much property. It truly was an empire. At Robert E Lee Wilson's death it was around 43,000 acres. The Wilson descendants just sold the remaining land (23,000 acres) in 2010. During his sixty-plus years on earth, Lee Wilson established five towns, a bank, and a multitude of cotton gins, s|About the Author||Jeannie Whayne is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas and the author of A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas and editor of several books, including Shadows over Sunnyside: Evoluti

In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II.

After his father's death in 1870, Robert E. "Lee" Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (Making the Modern South)   |  Jeannie Whayne.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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