Cotton and conquest : how the plantation system acquired Texas / Roger G. Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]Copyright date: Description: xvi, 352 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780806143460
  • 0806143460
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/490976409034 23
LOC classification:
  • F390 .K35 2013
Contents:
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.
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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.

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