River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom /

This work looks at the history of the Mississippi River Valley in the nineteenth century and the economy that developed there, powered by steam engines and slave labor. When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Walter, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013
Temas:
1800-1899
1800-talet
Slavery > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Cotton growing > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Capitalism > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Social change > Mississippi River Valley > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > History > 19th century.
Coton > Culture > Mississippi, Vallée du > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Impérialisme > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Histoire > 19e siècle.
15.85 history of America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Capitalism
Commerce
Cotton growing
Imperialism
Race relations
Slave trade
Slavery
Slavery > Economic aspects
Social change
Territorial expansion
Sklaverei
Sklavenhandel
Wirtschaft
Slavernij.
Expansie (macht)
Kapitalisme.
Katoenproductie.
Slavenhandel.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
Slaveri > historia.
Bomullsodling > historia.
Mississippi River Valley > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley > Commerce > History > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
Mississippi, Vallée du > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mississippi, Vallée du > Commerce > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mississippi River Valley
United States
Mississippital
Verenigde Staten.
Zuidelijke staten.
Mississippi (Etats-Unis, vallée)
Etats-Unis.
Förenta staterna > Mississippi (stat)
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Boom
  • Jeffersonian visions and nightmares in Louisiana
  • The Panic of 1835
  • The steamboat sublime
  • Limits to capital
  • The runaway's river
  • Dominion
  • "The empire of the white man's will"
  • The carceral landscape
  • The Mississippi Valley in the time of cotton
  • Capital, cotton, and free trade
  • Tales of Mississippian empire
  • The material limits of "Manifest Destiny"
  • "The grey-eyed man of destiny"
  • The ignominious effort to reopen the slave trade.

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