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Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom /
In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market,...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2011.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : the New Orleans -- Southern steamboat entrepreneurs -- Working on old man river -- Floating palaces and high-pressure prisons -- Indian removal -- Speed and safety -- The nature of improvements -- The rise of the cotton kingdom -- Steamboats in decline -- Epilogue : Mark Twain's odyssey -- Appendix A. Estimates of steamboat construction, tonnage, and longevity on southern rivers, 1811-1860 -- Appendix B. Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Cherokees removed by steamboat, 1830-1843 -- Appendix C. Estimates of accident rate, 1811 1851, and fatality rate from boiler explosions, 1816 1848, for western steamboats -- Appendix D. Estimates of wood consumption by southern steamboats, 1811-1860 -- Appendix E. Estimated costs associated with southern steamboats, 1811-1860 -- Appendix F. Estimated ton-miles, passenger miles, and tonnage hauled for southern -- Steamboats and southern railroads in selected years. | |
| 520 | |a In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. | ||
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