Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-508) and index.
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
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Mississippi River Valley, Commerce, History, 19th century.
Mississippi River Valley, Race relations, History, 19th century.
United States, Territorial expansion, History, 19th century.