River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom
Walter Johnson
| Year of publication: |
2013
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| Authors: | Johnson, Walter |
| Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
| Subject: | Mississippi (Fluss) | Mississippi (River) | USA (Südstaaten) | USA (Southern States) | Sklaverei | Slavery | Menschenhandel | Human trafficking | Baumwollanbau | Cotton production | Internationale Geschäftsbeziehungen | International business | Imperialismus | Imperialism | Kapitalismus | Capitalism | Sozialgeschichte | Social history | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | Economic history | Geschichte | History | Mississippital | Sklavenhandel | Wirtschaftliche Lage | Geschichte 1800-1900 |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [h-net.org] ; Description [h-net.org] ; Description [h-net.org] |
| Extent: | 526, [24] S. Ill. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Preface: Boom : The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- Race, Anxiety, and Escape on the Antebellum Mississippi -- 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 Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-04555-2 |
| Classification: | USA ; Sozialgeschichte ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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