Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-508) and index.
Preface: Boom : The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana -- The Panic of 1835 -- The Steamboat Sublime -- Limits to Capital -- Race, Anxiety, and Escape on the Antebellum Mississippi -- Dominion -- "The Empire of the White Man's Will" -- The Carceral Landscape -- The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton -- Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade -- Tales of Mississippian Empire -- The Material Limits of "Manifest Destiny" -- The Grey-eyed Man of Destiny -- The Ignominious Effort to Re-Open the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Looks at the history of the Mississippi River Valley in the nineteenth century and the economy that developed there, powered by steam engines and slave labor.
Capitalism-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
Cotton growing-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
Imperialism-- History-- 19th century.
Slave trade-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery-- Economic aspects-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
Slavery-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
Social change-- Mississippi River Valley-- History-- 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley, Commerce, History, 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley, Race relations, History, 19th century.
United States, Territorial expansion, History, 19th century.