River of dark dreams : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Walter, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Cotton growing--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Cotton growing.

Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Capitalism--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Capitalism.

Social change--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century.

Social change.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

History.

Slave trade--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

Commerce.

Race relations.

Slavery--Economic aspects.

Territorial expansion.

Mississippi River Valley--Race relations--History--19th century.

Mississippi River Valley.

Mississippi River Valley--Commerce--History--19th century.

United States--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

526 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Other Title:

Slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana

2. The Panic of 1835

3. The Steamboat Sublime

4. Limits to Capital

5. The Runaway's River

6. Dominion

7. "The Empire of the White Man's Will"

8. The Carceral Landscape

9. The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton

10. Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade

11. Tales of Mississippian Empire

12. The Material Limits of "Manifest Destiny"

13. "The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny"

14. The Ignominious Effort to Reopen the Slave Trade.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674975385

0674975383

OCLC:

985464255

Publisher Number:

99989152778