Plantation Kingdom : The American South and Its Global Commodities /
"Students need to understand how market demand for certain staple crops created plantations and the slave- and then indentured-labor system, and this book explains it. The third entry in the Cunliffe Series, it examines the cultivation of American tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton in the context...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Richard Follett
- The road to commodity hell : the rise and fall of the first American rice industry / Peter A. Coclanis
- Cotton and the U.S. South : a short history / Sven beckert
- The rise and fall of American sugar / Richard follett
- Tobacco's commodity route / Barbara hahn
- Conclusion / Richard follett.