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The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption, a small group of brokers sought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New York and New Orleans. They triumphed, cornering the world market in cotton and raising its price for years. However, the structural problems of self-regulation by market participants continued to threaten the cotton trade until eventually political pressure inspired federal regulation. In the form of the Cotton Futures Act of 1914, the federal government stamped out corruption on the exchanges, helping millions of farmers and textile manufacturers. Combining a gripping narrative with the controversial argument that markets work better when placed under federal regulation, The Cotton Kings brings to light a rarely told story that speaks directly to contemporary conflicts between free markets and regulation.
Bruce E. Baker teaches at Newcastle University in England and is co-editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947, After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South, and The South at Work: Observations from 1904. Barbara Hahn is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University and associate editor of Technology and Culture. She is the author of Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937. She is spending 2014-2016 as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.
Introduction
Ch 1 New Orleans and the Future of the Cotton Trade
Ch 2 The Value of Information
Ch 3 Building a Bear Trap
Ch 4 Cornering Cotton
Ch 5 Of Weevils and Wool Hats
Ch 6 Of Scandals, Sunshine, and Manipulation
Ch 7 Revenge of the Bears
Ch 8 The Perpetual Squeeze
Ch 9 The Cotton Futures Act of 1914
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
