CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Preface vii 



I. Cotton and Regionalism 1 



II. The Cotton Belt : Its Regions and Its Hu- 

 man Ecology 11 



III. The Evolution of the Cotton System . . 34 

 IV. The Risks of Cotton Production: The 



Weather and the Weevil 80 



V. The Risks of the Cotton Market ... 108 



VI. Around the Year with Cotton Growers . 150 

 VII. The Cotton System at the Turn of the 



Quarter Century 174 



VIII. How the Cotton Farmer Lives . . . . 205 



IX. Human Elements in Cotton Culture . . 252 



X. The Cotton Culture Complex .... 295 



Selected Bibliography 321 



Index 339 



