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Broken chains and subverted plans : ethnicity, race, and commodities / Christopher C. Fennell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fennell, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German Americans--Virginia--Loudoun County--Ethnic identity--History.
- German Americans.
- African Americans--Race identity--Illinois--History.
- African Americans.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Ethnic relations.
- History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Social networks.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Ethnicity.
- United States.
- Social networks--United States--History.
- Economic development--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Economic development.
- Elite (Social sciences)--United States--History.
- Archaeology and history--United States.
- Archaeology and history.
- German Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Race relations.
- United States--Ethnic relations--History.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- Illinois.
- Virginia--Loudoun County.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Using two case studies in the Virginia back country and the Midwestern frontier in Illinois, Fennell argues that individuals and their families were able to affect economic development and the plans of government and wealthy elites"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Ethnicity and commodity chains in nineteenth-century Virginia
- George Washington's great emporium
- The testimony of merchants
- Ethnic networks and a cultural landscape in the backcountry
- Local archaeology and transatlantic competitions
- Concluding observations: Ethnic networks in a Mid-Atlantic periphery
- Part 2: Racism, land, and freedom in nineteenth-century Illinois
- Overcoming enslavement with toil, gunpowder, and land
- Racism's waste and resilient entrepreneurs
- Surmounting adversities in the Land of Lincoln
- Concluding observations: Understanding histories with concepts of race and ethnicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813062457
- 0813062454
- OCLC:
- 945483257
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