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Cotton and conquest : how the plantation system acquired Texas / Roger G. Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Roger G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantations--Economic aspects.
- History.
- Plantations.
- Cotton trade.
- Economic conditions.
- Texas--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Texas.
- Commerce (Tex.)--History--19th century.
- Commerce (Tex.).
- Cotton trade--Texas--History--19th century.
- Plantations--Economic aspects--Texas--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Foreword : informed delight / by William deBuys
- Lineaments of force
- Textiles, Britain, France, and Texas
- The British and Texas
- THe French and gunboat diplomacy
- The sword of Duwali
- Dividing and conquering the land
- The Ellicotts and William Augustus Bowles
- Mercantile firms
- The new plantocracy at home
- Philip Nolan, James Wilkinson, and the art of reconnaissance
- Intrigue in many forms
- The Natchez nabobs
- William Dunbar and the "voyages of discovery"
- The planters' Mexico or Mexico's Mexico?
- Restoring the record
- Escaping the burden of southern history
- Last things and legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806143460
- 0806143460
- OCLC:
- 814707458
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