E-book
River of dark dreams [electronic resource] : slavery and empire in the cotton kingdom / Walter Johnson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780674074880 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0674074882 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 pages)
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Boom -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- The Runaway's River -- 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 Reopen the Atlantic Slave Trade. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
