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Author | : Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429015918 |
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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."
Author | : Walter Johnson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674074882 |
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River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.
Author | : Robert H. Gudmestad |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807138428 |
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The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Author | : Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
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Author | : William Edward Dodd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Southern States |
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Author | : FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Author | : Kathryn Olivarius |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 0674241053 |
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Introduction: A rising necropolis -- Patriotic fever -- Danse macabre -- Immunocapital -- Public health, private acclimation -- Denial, delusion, and disunion -- Incumbent arrogance -- Epilogue: Fever and folly.
Author | : Frederick Law Olmsted |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Cotton growing |
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Download Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom. A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1609804171 |
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A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
Author | : Sven Beckert |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375713964 |
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.