River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom
Record details
- ISBN: 0674975383
- ISBN: 9780674975385
- ISBN: 0674045556
- ISBN: 9780674045552
- ISBN: 0674074882
- ISBN: 9780674074880
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (526 pages) : illustrations, maps
remote - Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: 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 slave trade. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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