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Zachary Taylor - Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest - Bok av K. Jack Bauer - Häftad

SEK 620.00

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Planting a Capitalist South - Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860 - Bok av Tom Downey - Häftad

Challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South. By analyzing the interplay of planters, merchants, and manufacturers, Tom Downey characterizes the South as a sphere of contending types of capitalists.

SEK 650.00

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Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia - Bok av Warren M. Billings - Häftad

Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. In this biography, Warren Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life.

SEK 730.00

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Chinese in the Post-Civil War South - A People Without a History - Bok av Lucy M. Cohen - Häftad

Based on research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of immigrants, this study by Lucy Cohen is the first history of the Chinese in the Reconstruction South - their rejection of the role that planter society had envisioned for them and their adaptation into a less rigid segment of rural southern society.

SEK 490.00

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James Henry Hammond and the Old South - A Design for Mastery - Bok av Drew Gilpin Faust - Häftad

From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time.

SEK 730.00

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An American Planter - Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York - Bok av Martha Jane Brazy - Inbunden

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with an array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North.

SEK 716.00

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Yeoman Versus Cavalier - The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion - Bok av Ritchie Devon Watson Jr - Häftad

In Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., examines the emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the Old Southwest -- Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas -- during the first half of the nineteenth century. He related this region's shift in cultural ideals, as reflected in its literature, both to the coming of the Civil War and the failure..

SEK 490.00

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The Percys of Mississippi - Politics and Literature in the New South - Bok av Lewis Baker - Häftad

Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four generations of Percy family history, Lewis Baker chronicles the lives and public careers of Colonel William Alexander Percy, a planter and lawyer; his son LeRoy, a lawyer and United States Senator; LeRoy's son Will, a poet and lawyer; and Will's nephew..

SEK 570.00

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