Creating abundance: biological innovation and American agricultural development

Introduction 2. The red queen and the hard reds: productivity growth in American wheat, 1800-1940 3. Corn: America's crop 4. Cotton: variety innovation and the making of king cotton 5. Weevils, worms, and wilts: the red queen's cotton playground 6. The other revolution in the cotton economy: cotton's revival in the twentieth century 7. That 'stinking weed of America': the evolution of tobacco production 8. California: creating a cornucopia 9. Livestock in the farm economy 10. Defining and redesigning America's livestock 11. Nature's perfect food: inventing the modern dairy industry 12. Draft power 13. Conclusion: tying it together.