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Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase /
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Ro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The land and Mr. Jefferson. Chapter 1. Choices and consequences
- Rain in Virginia and its results
- Lessons for yeomen
- Pasteur, Wilson, and the three sisters
- Yeomen, planters, and the land
- Cheap land and slave labor
- Chapter 2. Washington, Jefferson, three worthies, and plantation migrancy
- Philosophers in the parlor and lessons on the land
- Westward sweeps the course of desolation
- The gospel of Garland Harmon
- Chapter 3. The way not taken
- The makers of a new order
- Jefferson's epitaph
- Disestablishing the grandees
- The brotherhood
- The unpropitiated son
- Monticello again
- Jefferson and democracy
- Jefferson and the family farmer
- Chapter 4. Independence
- A dependent arcadia
- The virtues of diversification
- Commercial squires and ungovernable governors
- Diversification, the pursuit of happiness, and cities
- Eastward toward civility
- The thousand-foot line
- Chapter 5. Powers of the earth
- Land companies, trading companies, and triassic capitalism
- The great land companies and revolution
- Jefferson and western speculation
- Veterans' benefits
- Armed occupation
- Armed occupation marches on
- Chapter 6. Jefferson's opportunities and the land
- 1784 : the second opportunity : the trans-Appalachian west
- The third opportunity : the lower Mississippi Valley
- Old men's dreams and the memories of the land
- The invisible empire and the land. Chapter 7. Colonial-imperialism
- Colonies and empires
- From round table to board table
- Reinvesting the loot
- Landed gentry
- Chapter 8. Textile colonial-imperialism
- India is conquered by the mechanics
- Solving the problem of supply
- The Americans are put on notice
- Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tench Coxe respond to William Pitt
- Jefferson and the cotton business
- Slaves as cash crop
- The millers send out their salesmen
- Independence?
- The British and the plantocracy.
- Resistance to the plantation system. Chapter 9. McGillivray
- Mixed people and mixed motives
- Indian statehood
- McGillivray's nationality
- McGillivray and Washington
- Chapter 10. Resisters, assisters, and lost causes
- Scots, Blacks, and Seminoles
- The firm
- The valences shift
- William Augustus Bowles : the second act
- Bowles and Ellicott
- "Execute him on the spot"
- The fox is run to earth
- Chapter 11. The firm steps forward
- Deerskins, rum, and land
- Indian yeomen and Governor Sargent's lost cause
- Yankee yeomen
- Chapter 12. Jeffersonian strategy and Jeffersonian agents
- Jefferson and Wilkinson
- Wilkinson's clients
- The firm adapts and collects
- Wilkinson, Forbes, and Dearborn
- Debt for land
- The accounts of Silas Dinsmoor
- The firm wraps things up
- Andrew Jackson takes charge, with some help from Benjamin Hawkins
- Agents of the master organism : assistants to the plantation system. Chapter 13. Fulwar Skipwith in context
- Skipwith the Jeffersonian
- Toussaint's yeoman republic
- The career of Fulwar Skipwith
- The quasi war and spoliation
- James Monroe's first mission to France
- Skipwith, the Livingstons, and Louisiana cotton
- The chancellor, indolent maroons, and Thomas Sumter
- Mister Sumter is shocked
- The third article
- Skipwith and the Floridas
- Consul Skipwith goes to jail
- Chapter 14. Destiny by intention
- The adventures of George Mathews
- War, commerce, and race
- Assisters and resisters
- The green flag of Florida
- Chapter 15. Louisiana and another class of Virginians
- The third opportunity reconsidered
- The Hillhouse debates
- Chapter 16. The Virginians of Louisiana decide the future of the land
- Out of the hills
- The Kemper outrage
- 1809-1810
- Skipwith and Randolph
- Complexities in Baton Rouge
- Skipwith at bay
- Haiti again
- Skipwith's Florida
- Epilogue. The Jeffersonian legacy : The Civil War and the Homestead Act
- Statesmanship and self-deception
- Final thoughts
- The economics of land use
- Appendix. Another stream
- Jefferson, Madison, Adam Smith, and the Chesapeake cities
- The Romans, armed occupation, and the Homestead Act
- Jefferson and the Ordinances of 1784 and 1787-89
- Debt and land
- Jefferson's Doctrine of usufruct
- Tribes, land, and Ireland
- Creeks, Seminoles, and numbers
- The Livingstons and West Florida
- The Claiborne-Clark duel
- Fulwar Skipwith and Andrew Jackson.