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Inventing the cotton gin: machine and myth in antebellum America

Angela Lakwete
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • 1 Cotton and the Gin to 1600 (page 1)
  • 2 The Roller Gin in the Americas, 1607-1790 (page 21)
  • 3 The Invention of the Saw Gin, 1790-1810 (page 47)
  • 4 The Transition from the Roller to the Saw Gin, 1796-1830 (page 72)
  • 5 The Saw Gin Industry, 1830-1865 (page 97)
  • 6 Saw Gin Innovation, 1820-1870 (page 122)
  • 7 Old and New Roller Gins, 1820-1870 (page 148)
  • 8 Machine and Myth (page 177)
  • Notes (page 193)
  • Essay on Sources (page 219)
  • Index (page 223)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
TC 45.4 (Oct. 2004): 834-835 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40060693
AgH 79.3 (Summer 2005): 376-378 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3745078
JAH 91.4 (Mar. 2005): 1452-1453 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3660219
EnS 5.3 (Sep. 2004): 539-541 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23700146
LAH 46.1 (Winter 2005): 111-113 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4234093
JSH 71.1 (Feb. 2005): 142-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27648657
BHR 78.3 (Autumn 2004): 520-522 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25096916
FHQ 83.4 (Spring 2005): 482-484 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30149592
SCHM 105.3 (July 2004): 230-232 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27570697
AHR 110.2 (Apr. 2005): 481-482 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/531373
GHQ 88.4 (Winter 2004): 549-551 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40584775
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801873942 (hardcover)
  • 9780801882722 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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