Empire of Commerce : The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade / Susan Gaunt Stearns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stearns, Susan Gaunt, 1980- author.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial revolution--United States.

Industrial revolution.

Shipping--Missouri River.

Shipping.

United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In Empire of Commerce, Susan Gaunt Stearns takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States' untrammeled westward expansion. Her work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic. Stearns's perspective-shifting book reconfigures our understanding of key postrevolutionary moments-the writing of the Constitution, the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana Purchase-and demonstrates how the transatlantic cotton trade finally set the stage for transforming an imagined west into something real"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Mississippi River Trade to 1783

1 The Colonial River

2 Kentucky Land, Cash, and the Mississippi

3 The River at War

Part II. The Closure of the River and Sectional Crisis, 1784-1795

4 An Imperial Problem

5 Trading without the River

6 Chickasaw Country

Part III. Western Trade, Atlantic World, 1796-1803

7 Cotton and the Americanization of Natchez

8 American Trade in a Spanish Port

9 The Chickasaw Trace

10 Buying the Mississippi

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Recent books in the series.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813951256

0813951259