River of dark dreams, slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
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River of dark dreams, slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom, Walter Johnson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
River of dark dreams
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
809365647
Responsibility statement
Walter Johnson
Sub title
slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom
Table Of Contents
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
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- Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
- Slave trade + History -- 19th century
- Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
- Imperialism + History -- 19th century
- Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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- Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
- Slave trade + History -- 19th century
- Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
- Imperialism + History -- 19th century
- Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery + Economic aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
- Mississippi River Valley -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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