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BL
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631862
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Johnson, Walter,1967-
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| Title & Author
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River of dark dreams : : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom /\ Walter Johnson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. : : Belknap Press, , 2013.
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526 pages ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780674045552 (alkaline paper)
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: 0674045556 (alkaline paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-508) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface: Boom : The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- Race, Anxiety, and Escape on the Antebellum Mississippi -- Dominion -- "The Empire of the White Man's Will" -- The Carceral Landscape -- The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade -- Tales of Mississippian Empire -- The Material Limits of "Manifest Destiny" -- The Grey-eyed Man of Destiny -- The Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Looks at the history of the Mississippi River Valley in the nineteenth century and the economy that developed there, powered by steam engines and slave labor.
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Slavery-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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Cotton growing-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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Slavery-- Economic aspects-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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Capitalism-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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Social change-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
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Imperialism-- History-- 19th century.
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Slave trade-- History-- 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley, Race relations, History, 19th century.
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Mississippi River Valley, Commerce, History, 19th century.
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United States, Territorial expansion, History, 19th century.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.800977
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E449.J695 2013
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