Johnson, Walter, 1967-
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.

Subjects:

• Slavery — Mississippi River Valley — History — 19th century.
• Cotton growing — Mississippi River Valley — History — 19th century.
• Slavery — Economic aspects — Mississippi River Valley — History — 19th century.
• Capitalism — Mississippi River Valley — History — 19th century.
• Social change — Mississippi River Valley — History — 19th century.
• Mississippi River Valley — Race relations — History — 19th century.
• Mississippi River Valley — Commerce — History — 19th century.
• United States — Territorial expansion — History — 19th century.
• Imperialism — History — 19th century.
• Slave trade — History — 19th century.

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