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Cotton and conquest : how the plantation system acquired Texas
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- Creator
- Roger G. Kennedy
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 352 pages : map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780806143460, 0806143460
- OCLC
- ocn814707458
- Includes bibliographical references 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