Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 9781469624259, 9781469624242, 1469624257

Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 1469624249, 9781469624242

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of America

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Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands 9781496229441, 2021936392

2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Pri

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Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand 9781845117979, 9780755697045, 9780857719201

The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this la

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Complexion of Empire in Natchez: Race and Slavery in the Mississippi Borderlands 0820358509, 9780820358505

In Complexion of Empire in Natchez, Christian Pinnen examines slavery in the colonial South, using a variety of legal re

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Pakistan's Western Borderlands: The Transformation of a Political Order

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Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire 9780300189445

Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while

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Asian borderlands: the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier 9780674021716

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Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town 9781477314395

A small town in the vast desert of West Texas, Marfa attracts visitors from around the world to its art foundations and

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Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest 9780812294101

Borderlands of Slavery explores how the existence of two involuntary labor systems—Mexican peonage and Indian captivity—

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The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in Us State Building 900431413X, 9789004314139

The Agrarian Seeds of Empire outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity bu

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