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The Fragile Fabric of Union : Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801897818
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Fragile Fabric of UnionDDC classification:
  • 973.7/1
LOC classification:
  • F213 .S37 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- 1 The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Cotton, Empire, and Nation -- The Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton Interest -- Cotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits -- 2 Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796-1818 -- The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals" -- "The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and War -- Peace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive -- 3 Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818-1833 -- Panic and Protection -- Cotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor -- "Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status -- 4 Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial Advancement -- American Proslavery Thought in the Age of British Abolition -- The Second Party System in the Cotton South -- 5 An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849-1860 -- Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic Ascendance -- Converting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural Allies -- Realists Decide: Election and Secession -- Epilogue, 1861 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- 1 The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Cotton, Empire, and Nation -- The Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton Interest -- Cotton's "Revolution" and Its Limits -- 2 Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796-1818 -- The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of "Equals" -- "The Honor of Bearing It Best": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and War -- Peace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive -- 3 Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818-1833 -- Panic and Protection -- Cotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor -- "Unequal" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status -- 4 Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- Publishing the "Banns" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial Advancement -- American Proslavery Thought in the Age of British Abolition -- The Second Party System in the Cotton South -- 5 An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849-1860 -- Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic Ascendance -- Converting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural Allies -- Realists Decide: Election and Secession -- Epilogue, 1861 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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