An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin |
Autore | Chaplin Joyce E. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
Disciplina | 975/.02 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture - Southern States - History
Slavery - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8078-3830-6
1-4696-0051-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region; ONE: CONSIDERING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South; The Idea of Material Progress; Local Discussion; Slavery, Sentiment, and Stasis; Chapter 3. Being Exotic; Species of Eternity; Travelers' Accounts-Science and Fiction; Chapter 4. The Local Work Ethic; Fevers and Strangers; Duties and Improvements; Work and Slavery: A Problem; Social Mobility; Chapter 5. Projects and Power; Patrons of the Exotic; The Case of Silk
The Upcountry RespondsTWO: REALIZING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton; An Imperial Blue; A Patriotic Fiber; The Luxury Staple; Chapter 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation; Rivers; Mills; Power; Chapter 8. Creating a Cotton South; The Geography of Opportunity; The Gin; Slavery; Chapter 9. Factories and Fields; Domestic Diversification; Final Crisis; Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the ""Federo-national"" Union; Statistical Method; Bibliography; 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464307403321 |
An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin |
Autore | Chaplin Joyce E. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
Disciplina | 975/.02 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture - Southern States - History
Slavery - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908647-7-2
0-8078-3830-6 1-4696-0051-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region; ONE: CONSIDERING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South; The Idea of Material Progress; Local Discussion; Slavery, Sentiment, and Stasis; Chapter 3. Being Exotic; Species of Eternity; Travelers' Accounts-Science and Fiction; Chapter 4. The Local Work Ethic; Fevers and Strangers; Duties and Improvements; Work and Slavery: A Problem; Social Mobility; Chapter 5. Projects and Power; Patrons of the Exotic; The Case of Silk
The Upcountry RespondsTWO: REALIZING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton; An Imperial Blue; A Patriotic Fiber; The Luxury Staple; Chapter 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation; Rivers; Mills; Power; Chapter 8. Creating a Cotton South; The Geography of Opportunity; The Gin; Slavery; Chapter 9. Factories and Fields; Domestic Diversification; Final Crisis; Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the ""Federo-national"" Union; Statistical Method; Bibliography; 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788862603321 |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 | ||
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An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin |
Autore | Chaplin Joyce E. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (430 p.) |
Disciplina | 975/.02 |
Collana | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture - Southern States - History
Slavery - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History |
ISBN |
979-88-908647-7-2
0-8078-3830-6 1-4696-0051-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region; ONE: CONSIDERING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South; The Idea of Material Progress; Local Discussion; Slavery, Sentiment, and Stasis; Chapter 3. Being Exotic; Species of Eternity; Travelers' Accounts-Science and Fiction; Chapter 4. The Local Work Ethic; Fevers and Strangers; Duties and Improvements; Work and Slavery: A Problem; Social Mobility; Chapter 5. Projects and Power; Patrons of the Exotic; The Case of Silk
The Upcountry RespondsTWO: REALIZING MODERNΙΤΥ; Chapter 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton; An Imperial Blue; A Patriotic Fiber; The Luxury Staple; Chapter 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation; Rivers; Mills; Power; Chapter 8. Creating a Cotton South; The Geography of Opportunity; The Gin; Slavery; Chapter 9. Factories and Fields; Domestic Diversification; Final Crisis; Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the ""Federo-national"" Union; Statistical Method; Bibliography; 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829065603321 |
Chaplin Joyce E.
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1993 | ||
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Cotton and race in the making of America [[electronic resource] ] : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel |
Autore | Dattel Eugene R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1/73510975 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery - Economic aspects - Southern States - History
Cotton growing - Economic aspects - Southern States - History Cotton growing - Social aspects - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions Slavery - Political aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-28375-1
9786613283757 1-4422-1019-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution; Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention; Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861; Chapter 2: Birth of an Obsession; Chapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest; Chapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States; Chapter 5: The Business of Cotton; Chapter 6: The Roots of War; Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865; Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the North; Chapter 8: The Colonial North; Chapter 9: Race Moves West; Chapter 10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in America
Part 4: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy; Chapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil War; Chapter 13: Cotton and Confederate Finance; Chapter 14: Procuring Arms; Chapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United States; Chapter 16: Cotton and the Freedmen; Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930; Chapter 17: New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19: Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll; Chapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago Experience Part 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930Chapter 22: King Cotton Expands; Chapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance; Chapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and Land; Chapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker; Chapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457615703321 |
Dattel Eugene R
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 | ||
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Cotton and race in the making of America [[electronic resource] ] : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel |
Autore | Dattel Eugene R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1/73510975 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery - Economic aspects - Southern States - History
Cotton growing - Economic aspects - Southern States - History Cotton growing - Social aspects - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions Slavery - Political aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-28375-1
9786613283757 1-4422-1019-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution; Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention; Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861; Chapter 2: Birth of an Obsession; Chapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest; Chapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States; Chapter 5: The Business of Cotton; Chapter 6: The Roots of War; Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865; Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the North; Chapter 8: The Colonial North; Chapter 9: Race Moves West; Chapter 10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in America
Part 4: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy; Chapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil War; Chapter 13: Cotton and Confederate Finance; Chapter 14: Procuring Arms; Chapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United States; Chapter 16: Cotton and the Freedmen; Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930; Chapter 17: New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19: Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll; Chapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago Experience Part 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930Chapter 22: King Cotton Expands; Chapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance; Chapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and Land; Chapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker; Chapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781630103321 |
Dattel Eugene R
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 | ||
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Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel |
Autore | Dattel Eugene R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1/73510975 |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery - Economic aspects - Southern States - History
Cotton growing - Economic aspects - Southern States - History Cotton growing - Social aspects - Southern States - History Plantation life - Southern States - History African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions Slavery - Political aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-28375-1
9786613283757 1-4422-1019-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution; Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention; Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861; Chapter 2: Birth of an Obsession; Chapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest; Chapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States; Chapter 5: The Business of Cotton; Chapter 6: The Roots of War; Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865; Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the North; Chapter 8: The Colonial North; Chapter 9: Race Moves West; Chapter 10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in America
Part 4: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy; Chapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil War; Chapter 13: Cotton and Confederate Finance; Chapter 14: Procuring Arms; Chapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United States; Chapter 16: Cotton and the Freedmen; Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930; Chapter 17: New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19: Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll; Chapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago Experience Part 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930Chapter 22: King Cotton Expands; Chapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance; Chapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and Land; Chapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker; Chapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827592503321 |
Dattel Eugene R
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Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009 | ||
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Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless : The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana / / [compiled by] Ronald L. Baker |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 975 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BakerRonald L. <1937-> |
Soggetto topico |
Plantation life - Southern States - History
Slaves - Southern States - Social conditions Slaves - Indiana |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-253-02857-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154721403321 |
Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2000 | ||
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana |
Autore | Matrana Marc R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/49 |
Soggetto topico |
Plantations - Southern States - History
Plantation life - Southern States - History Plantation owners - Southern States Slaves - Southern States Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Southern States Historic preservation - Southern States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-48553-9
9786612485534 1-60473-469-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. The Upper South, East: Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland; CHAPTER 2. The Upper South, West: Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee; CHAPTER 3. The Carolinas; CHAPTER 4. Georgia; CHAPTER 5. Alabama and Florida; CHAPTER 6. Mississippi; CHAPTER 7. Louisiana; CHAPTER 8. Texas; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Note to the Reader; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459360003321 |
Matrana Marc R
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 | ||
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana |
Autore | Matrana Marc R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/49 |
Soggetto topico |
Plantations - Southern States - History
Plantation life - Southern States - History Plantation owners - Southern States Enslaved persons - Southern States Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Southern States Historic preservation - Southern States |
ISBN |
1-282-48553-9
9786612485534 1-60473-469-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. The Upper South, East: Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland; CHAPTER 2. The Upper South, West: Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee; CHAPTER 3. The Carolinas; CHAPTER 4. Georgia; CHAPTER 5. Alabama and Florida; CHAPTER 6. Mississippi; CHAPTER 7. Louisiana; CHAPTER 8. Texas; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Note to the Reader; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792345603321 |
Matrana Marc R
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 | ||
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana |
Autore | Matrana Marc R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/49 |
Soggetto topico |
Plantations - Southern States - History
Plantation life - Southern States - History Plantation owners - Southern States Enslaved persons - Southern States Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Southern States Historic preservation - Southern States |
ISBN |
1-282-48553-9
9786612485534 1-60473-469-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. The Upper South, East: Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland; CHAPTER 2. The Upper South, West: Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee; CHAPTER 3. The Carolinas; CHAPTER 4. Georgia; CHAPTER 5. Alabama and Florida; CHAPTER 6. Mississippi; CHAPTER 7. Louisiana; CHAPTER 8. Texas; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Note to the Reader; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807734603321 |
Matrana Marc R
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009 | ||
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