Anna Arabindan-Kesson examines how cotton became a subject for nineteenth-century art by tracing the symbolic and material correlations between cotton and Black people in British and American visual culture.
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"An ethnography of rural farmers in India that brings to light the devastating consequences of large agrobusiness. This book is the first in the new Global Change / Global Health series"--
"An ethnography of rural farmers in India that brings to light the devastating consequences of large agrobusiness. This book is the first in the new Global Change / Global Health series"--
This dissertation explores the ways in which genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, rice seeds, and organic cotton seeds in Telangana, India set farmers on diverging economic, environmental, and social trajectories. GM cotton, a cash crop sold under hundreds of different brand …
"An ethnography of rural farmers in India that brings to light the devastating consequences of large agrobusiness. This book is the first in the new Global Change / Global Health series"--
"An ethnography of rural farmers in India that brings to light the devastating consequences of large agrobusiness. This book is the first in the new Global Change / Global Health series"--.
This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial p…
This interdisciplinary collection brings together some of the newest scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial p…
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three fami…
A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In the summer of 1936, James Agee set out with photographer Walker Evans on assignment for Fortune magazine. Their mission was to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the height of t…
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three fami…
