Plantation Kingdom

Author : Richard Follett
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419416
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantation Kingdom written by Richard Follett and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees. In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later—after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets—America’s plantations lay in ruins. Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America’s plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery’s work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty and forced labor haunted the region well into the twentieth century. The book explores the importance of slavery to the Old South, the astounding profitability of plantation agriculture, and the legacy of emancipation. It also examines the place of American producers in world markets and considers the impact of globalization and international competition 150 years ago. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.

Author : César J. Ayala
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867977
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sugar Kingdom written by César J. Ayala and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.

Author : Richard Follett
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419408
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantation Kingdom written by Richard Follett and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.

Author : Rhys Isaac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195189086
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom written by Rhys Isaac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cotton Kingdom written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph C. Robert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tobacco Kingdom written by Joseph C. Robert and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Flynn Siler
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802194885
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Kingdom written by Julia Flynn Siler and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author delivers “a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii . . . A real gem of a book” (Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot). Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili‘uokalani, the last queen of Hawai‘i. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation of the islands. Lucrative sugar plantations gradually subsumed the majority of the land, owned almost exclusively by white planters, dubbed the “Sugar Kings.” Hawai‘i became a prize in the contest between America, Britain, and France, each seeking to expand their military and commercial influence in the Pacific. The monarchy had become a figurehead, victim to manipulation from the wealthy sugar plantation owners. Lili‘u was determined to enact a constitution to reinstate the monarchy’s power but was outmaneuvered by the United States. The annexation of Hawai‘i had begun, ushering in a new century of American imperialism. “An important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should.” —The New York Times Book Review “Siler gives us a riveting and intimate look at the rise and tragic fall of Hawaii’s royal family . . . A reminder that Hawaii remains one of the most breathtaking places in the world. Even if the kingdom is lost.” —Fortune “[A] well-researched, nicely contextualized history . . . [Indeed] ‘one of the most audacious land grabs of the Gilded Age.’” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cotton Kingdom written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074882
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River of Dark Dreams written by Walter Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Author : FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE COTTON KINGDOM written by FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: