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Kennedy, Roger G.

Cotton and conquest : how the plantation system acquired Texas / Roger G. Kennedy. - xvi, 352 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index.

Foreword : informed delight / by William deBuys -- Lineaments of force -- Textiles, Britain, France, and Texas -- The British and Texas -- The French and gunboat diplomacy -- The sword of Duwali -- Dividing and conquering the land -- The Ellicotts and William Augustus Bowles -- Mercantile firms -- The new plantocracy at home -- Philip Nolan, James Wilkinson, and the art of reconnaissance -- Intrigue in many forms -- The Natchez nabobs -- William Dunbar and the "voyages of discovery" -- The planters' Mexico or Mexico's Mexico? -- Restoring the record -- Escaping the burden of southern history -- Last things and legacies.

ISBN: 9780806143460 0806143460

LCCN: 2013005667

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1800-1899

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cotton trade--History--Texas--19th century.
Plantations--Economic aspects--History--Texas--19th century.
Commerce.
Cotton trade.
Economic history.
Plantations--Economic aspects.
Plantations de coton------

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Texas--Economic conditions--19th century.
Texas--Commerce--History--19th century.
Texas.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: F390 / .K35 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/490976409034