Seeds of Empire - Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands,

Informationen zum Autor Andrew J. Torget is assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas. Klappentext 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.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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew J Torget, Andrew J. Torget
• Verlag: University Of North Carolina
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.08.2018
• EAN: 9781469645568
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-4556-8
• Seiten: 368
• Serie: The David J. Weber the New Bor
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges