Broken Chains and Subverted Plans [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities / / Christopher C. Fennell
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Fennell Christopher
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| Titolo: |
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities / / Christopher C. Fennell
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| Pubblicazione: | Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.800973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Archaeology and history - United States |
| Elite (Social sciences) - United States - History | |
| Economic development - Social aspects - United States - History | |
| Social networks - United States - History | |
| Racism - United States - History | |
| African Americans - Race identity - Illinois - History | |
| German Americans - Virginia - Loudoun County - Ethnic identity - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations History |
| United States Ethnic relations History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Subversions, ethnic dynamics, and racism -- Elite strategies, local networks -- Part 1: Ethnicity and commodity chains in nineteenth-century Virginia -- George Washington's great emporium -- The testimony of merchants -- Ethnic networks and a cultural landscape in the backcountry -- Local archaeology and transatlantic competitions -- Concluding observations: Ethnic networks in a Mid-Atlantic periphery -- Part 2: Racism, land, and freedom in nineteenth-century Illinois -- Overcoming enslavement with toil, gunpowder, and land -- Racism's waste and resilient entrepreneurs -- Surmounting adversities in the Land of Lincoln -- Concluding observations: Understanding histories with concepts of race and ethnicity. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Using two case studies in the Virginia back country and the Midwestern frontier in Illinois, Fennell argues that individuals and their families were able to affect economic development and the plans of government and wealthy elites"--Provided by publisher. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Broken Chains and Subverted Plans |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-5324-2 |
| 0-8130-5268-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910155532003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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