River of Dark Dreams : : Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 526 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674045552 (alkaline paper)
0674045556 (alkaline paper)
SUBJECTS
Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Cotton growing -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- History -- Mississippi River Valley -- 19th century.
Capitalism -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Social change -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- 19th century.