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The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

Seeds of Empire

Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Torget, Andrew J.

Seeds of Empire

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History

Seeds of Empire

Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History: Seeds of Empire

 

Tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

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Beschrijving The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History: Seeds of Empire

Tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

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9781469624242
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390
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The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
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680
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1
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Hardback
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Engels
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