Cotton and race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920

The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton"

"The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa

"The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture

"King Cotton's impoverished retinue": Making cotton a "White man's crop" in the American South

Cotton, development, and the "Imperial Burden."