{"product_id":"seeds-of-empire-cotton-slavery-and-the-transformation-of-the-texas-borderlands-1800-1850-paperback-softback-9781469645568","title":"Seeds of Empire; Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469645568","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSeeds of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew J. Torget (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469645568\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 20 halftones, 3 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e24 x 19.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.525 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWritten in a clear, engaging style, and supported by prodigious research in both Mexican and U.S. archives, \u003ci\u003eSeeds of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a complete reconfiguration of this period of Texas history.  It will undoubtedly serve as the standard work on the topic.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"[An] insightful volume [that] provides a new analysis focused on the development of cotton farming.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eSouthwestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Incisive and accessible . . . bridges borderlands history with that of the Atlantic World, crafting a multifaceted view of the rise of 'King Cotton' across borders and oceans.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A well-argued, brisk survey of the formative decades of modern Texas that challenges us to reconsider why it is that the legacy of slavery continues to haunt our civic and cultural life, both in Texas and throughout the nation.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Torget ultimately has crafted a work to which scholars of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands should aspire-one that effectively balances U.S. and Mexican sources and addresses vital historical issues resonating from shifting national and imperial spaces.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Well written, expertly researched, and interpretatively ambitious, \u003ci\u003eSeeds of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e immediately moves to the front ranks of monographs examining the long Civil War era on both sides of the Rio Grande.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Civil War Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Deeply researched and clearly written.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"The most nuanced and authoritative rewriting of Texas's origin myth to date.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Deeply researched and artfully written . . . \u003ci\u003eSeeds of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e brings new insight and nuance to the story of early Texas. . . . This is a fine and valuable addition to the library of Southwestern history, and it's a pleasure to read, as well.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Expertly supports thoughtful arguments and deeply expands our understanding of the intersection between cotton, slavery, and empire.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBy the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeds of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712028471576,"sku":"9781469645568","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/seeds-of-empire-cotton-slavery-and-the-transformation-of-the-texas-borderlands-1800-1850-paperback-softback-9781469645568","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}