Seeds of empire : cotton, slavery, and the transformation of the Texas borderlands, 1800-1850 /
Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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| Summary: | Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s. |
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| Item Description: | "Short sections of chapters 2 and 3 appeared previously in Stephen F. Austin's views on slavery in early Texas, in This corner of Canaan : essays on Texas in honor of Randolph B. Campbell, edited by Richard McCaslin, Donald Chipman and Andrew J. Torget (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013)." |
| Physical Description: | xii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469624242 1469624249 |