Seeds of empire : cotton, slavery, and the transformation of the Texas borderlands, 1800-1850 /

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By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torget, Andrew J., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Cotton trade > Texas > History > 19th century.
Cotton trade > Mexico > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Texas > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Mexico > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Cotton trade.
Slavery.
Texas > History > Revolution, 1835-1836.
Texas > History > Republic, 1836-1846.
Mexico > History > Wars of Independence, 1810-1821.
Mexico > History > 19th century.
Mexico.
Texas.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Cotton, slavery, and empire
  • In the shadow of cotton
  • The Texas borderlands on the eve of Mexican independence
  • Bringing Mississippi to Mexico
  • American migration to Mexico, 1821-1825
  • The politics of slavery in northeastern Mexico, 1826-1829
  • Cotton, slavery, and the secession of Texas, 1829-1836
  • Cotton nation and slaveholders' republic
  • Creating a cotton nation, 1836-1841
  • The failure of the slaveholders' republic, 1842-1845
  • Epilogue. Migrations and transformations
  • Appendix 1. The Texas slavery project
  • Appendix 2. Cotton prices and trade.

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