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Autore: | Schoen Brian |
Titolo: | The fragile fabric of Union : cotton, federal politics, and the global origins of the Civil War / / Brian Schoen |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xiv, 369 p. : ill., map |
Disciplina: | 973.7/1 |
Soggetto topico: | Cotton trade - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Cotton trade - United States - History - 19th century | |
Cotton trade - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century | |
Secession - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Economic conditions 19th century |
Southern States Foreign economic relations Europe 19th century | |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- 1 The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Cotton, Empire, and Nation -- The Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton Interest -- Cotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits -- 2 Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796-1818 -- The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals" -- "The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and War -- Peace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive -- 3 Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818-1833 -- Panic and Protection -- Cotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor -- "Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status -- 4 Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial Advancement -- American Proslavery Thought in the Age of British Abolition -- The Second Party System in the Cotton South -- 5 An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849-1860 -- Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic Ascendance -- Converting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural Allies -- Realists Decide: Election and Secession -- Epilogue, 1861 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The fragile fabric of Union |
ISBN: | 0-8018-9781-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810354403321 |
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