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River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom

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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.

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Ossining Public Library 305.8009 J (Text)
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The Field Library 305.8 J (Text)
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31022151773451
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1001 . ‡aJohnson, Walter, ‡d1967- ‡0n 99834880 ‡0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99834880
24510. ‡aRiver of dark dreams : ‡bslavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / ‡cWalter Johnson.
264 1. ‡aCambridge, Massachusetts : ‡bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, ‡c2013.
300 . ‡a526 pages ; ‡c25 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 423-508) and index.
5050 . ‡aBoom -- 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.
520 . ‡aLooks 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.
596 . ‡a30 31
650 0. ‡aSlavery ‡zMississippi River Valley ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 189611
650 0. ‡aCotton growing ‡zMississippi River Valley ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0sh 85033329
650 0. ‡aSlavery ‡xEconomic aspects ‡zMississippi River Valley ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 189611
650 0. ‡aCapitalism ‡zMississippi River Valley ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 147082
650 0. ‡aSocial change ‡zMississippi River Valley ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 374660
651 0. ‡aMississippi River Valley ‡xRace relations ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0sh 85086210
651 0. ‡aMississippi River Valley ‡xCommerce ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0sh 85086210
651 0. ‡aUnited States ‡xTerritorial expansion ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 99717
650 0. ‡aImperialism ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0BSLW 239198
650 0. ‡aSlave trade ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. ‡0sh2008111713
994 . ‡aZ0 ‡bVVW
948 . ‡hNO HOLDINGS IN VVW - 422 OTHER HOLDINGS
998 . ‡aa1631794
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