River of Dark Dreams by Walter Johnson

Author:Walter Johnson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Social Science, Slavery, United States, Harvard University Press, Political Economy, Business & Economics, Political Science, Economic History, 19th Century, History
Published: 2012-11-30T13:28:49+00:00

Document Outline

Contents

Introduction: Boom

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

Acknowledgments

Index

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