[PDF.64ro] River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

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 | #352104 in Books |  Belknap Press |  2013-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.28 x1.63 x6.48l,2.15 | File type: PDF | 560 pages

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||29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.| Groundbreaking Scholarship, Riveting Read|By Dominick|As Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams weaves its way through the history of slavery and economics in the Mississippi River Valley, he does everything in his power to dispel all romanticized notions of the antebellum South. Johnson crafts a unique narrative that reinvigorates the scholarship on this time period wit| |With deep insights, original readings, expansive vision, and dramatic narratives, Walter Johnson reconfigures both the political economy of American slavery and the landscape of struggle in the slave South. (Steven Hahn, author of A Nation under Our

When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom   |  Walter Johnson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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