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Johnson, Walter,1967-
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River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom /Walter Johnson.
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Publicerad:Cambridge, Massachusetts :Publicerad:Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,Publicerad:2013
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526 pages, [24] pages of platesillustrations24 cm
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LIBRIS-ID:14010815
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ISBN:9780674045552
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ISBN:0674045556
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40021980241
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 Atlantic slave trade.
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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.
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