Free Downloads Seeds Of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, And The Transformation Of The Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series In The New Borderlands History)
By 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. Seeds of Empire 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.
Series: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (September 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1469624249
ISBN-13: 978-1469624242
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Torget has made an essential and exciting contribution to the written history of Texas. He captures the reader's attention and keeps it, writing with clarity, authority and style as the somewhat complex origins of the Republic and then State of Texas are brought into clear and fascinating focus. This is a must-read, and perhaps the most critical "first read", for anyone with an interest in understanding the Texas story and how it fits into this exciting period of North American history.
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