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River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom Walter Johnson on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Winner of the SHEAR Book Prize Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Honorable Mention River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Walter Johnsons River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom traces the development of an imperial ethos among southern planters and firebrands in the Mississippi River Valley between roughly 1820 and 1861 River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom Lastly there was the imaginative transformation of metal and paper into the physical vehicles of a scale of values which could be used to compare the plats of land and the bodies of slaves to all manner of other goods If you took them at face value River Of Dark Dreams Slavery And Empire In The Cotton In River of Dark Dreams however the focus becomes a key part of his argument which collapses the distinctions between capitalism and slavery In Johnson’s hands slaveholders were masters of Fordism decades before Model Ts rolled off the assembly lines Walter Johnson River of Dark Dreams Slavery Empire in Walter Johnson River of Dark Dreams Slavery Empire in the Cotton Kingdom This marvelous work of history is a must read for anyone trying to understand the dynamics of slavery in the United States in the preCivil War period Walter Johnson River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire River of Dark Dreams has ambition and reach There can be no gainsaying its three themes as central to understanding nineteenthcentury America The Cotton Kingdom is rightly situated at the heart of wider networks of exchange But at the same time it is a troubling book MR Online Review of River of Dark Dreams The commercial geography of capitalism and slavery in the Cotton Kingdom was shaped in dialectical interchange with the ecology of the Mississippi Valley Writing within a Marxist framework Johnson is able to simultaneously demonstrate the way that the labour of the slaves created enormous wealth transformed the physical landscape and at the same time created the basis for a political and economic crisis River of dark dreams slavery and empire in the cotton River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands This bold River of Dark Dreams — Walter Johnson Harvard University River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in expansionism global capitalism and the upcoming Civil War Project MUSE River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in River of Dark Dreams Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom Cambridge Belknap of Harvard UP 2013 560 pp 3500 Cambridge Belknap of Harvard UP 2013 560 pp 3500 Long awaited by scholars of slavery Walter Johnson’s latest work is in many ways two books in one
