River of Dark Dreams

Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Walter Johnson

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$23.50 • £18.95 • €21.00

ISBN 9780674975385

Publication Date: 03/13/2017

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560 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

27 halftones, 2 tables

Belknap Press

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Introduction: Boom
1. Jeffersonian Visions and Nightmares in Louisiana
2. The Panic of 1835
3. The Steamboat Sublime
4. Limits to Capital
5. The Runaway’s River
6. Dominion
7. “The Empire of the White Man’s Will”
8. The Carceral Landscape
9. The Mississippi Valley in the Time of Cotton
10. Capital, Cotton, and Free Trade
11. Tales of Mississippian Empire
12. The Material Limits of “Manifest Destiny”
13. “The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny”
14. The Ignominious Effort to Reopen the Slave Trade
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Honorable Mention, 2014 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians

2013 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

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