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An anxious pursuit : agricultural innovation and modernity in the lower South, 1730-1815 / / Joyce E. Chaplin
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
Chaplin Joyce E.  
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
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
Chaplin Joyce E.  
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
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.  
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
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  
Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009
Materiale a stampa
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Cotton and race in the making of America [[electronic resource] ] : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel
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  
Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009
Materiale a stampa
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Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / / Gene Dattel
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  
Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, 2009
Materiale a stampa
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Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless : The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana / / [compiled by] Ronald L. Baker
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
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana
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  
Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana
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  
Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Lost plantations of the South [[electronic resource] /] / Marc R. Matrana
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  
Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Materiale a stampa
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