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Empire of Commerce : The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade
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- Creator
- Susan Gaunt Stearns
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]
- ©2024
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813951256, 0813951259, 0813951240, 0813951232
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Mississippi River Trade to 1783 -- 1 The Colonial River -- 2 Kentucky Land, Cash, and the Mississippi -- 3 The River at War -- Part II. The Closure of the River and Sectional Crisis, 1784-1795 -- 4 An Imperial Problem -- 5 Trading without the River -- 6 Chickasaw Country -- Part III. Western Trade, Atlantic World, 1796-1803 -- 7 Cotton and the Americanization of Natchez -- 8 American Trade in a Spanish Port -- 9 The Chickasaw Trace -- 10 Buying the Mississippi -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent books in the series