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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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Auteurs principaux: Follett, Richard J., 1968- (Auteur), Hahn, Barbara, 1967- (Auteur), Coclanis, Peter A., 1952- (Auteur), Beckert, Sven (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.