River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson.
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Johnson, Walter, 1967- (författare)
- ISBN 9780674045552
- Publicerad: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013
- Engelska 526 pages, [24] pages of plates
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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.
- 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.
Ämnesord
- Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Imperialism -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Slave trade -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Slaveri -- historia (sao)
- Bomullsodling -- historia (sao)
- Förenta staterna -- Mississippi (delstat) (sao)
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- 1800-talet (sao)
Klassifikation
- 305.800977 (DDC)
- Mq (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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