Inventing the cotton gin : machine and myth in antebellum America
"In Inventing the Cotton Gin, Angela Lakwete explores the history of the cotton gin as part of global history and as an artifact of southern industrial development. She examines gin invention and innovation in Asia and Africa from the earliest evidence to the seventeenth century, when British colonizers introduced an Asian hand-cranked roller gin to the Americas
Print Book, English, 2003
The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003