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fragile fabric of Union
Winner, 2010 Bennett H. Wall Award, Southern Historical Association
In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War.
Schoen takes a unique and broad approach. Rather than seeing the Deep South and its planters as isolated from larger intellectual, economic, and political developments, he places the region firmly within them. In doing so, he demonstrates that the region's prominence within the modern world—and not its opposition to it—indelibly shaped Southern history.
The place of \"King Cotton\" in the sectional thinking and budding nationalism of the Lower South seems obvious enough, but Schoen reexamines the ever-shifting landscape of international trade from the 1780s through the eve of the Civil War. He argues that the Southern cotton trade was essential to the European economy, seemingly worth any price for Europeans to protect and maintain, and something to defend aggressively in the halls of Congress. This powerful association gave the Deep South the confidence to ultimately secede from the Union.
By integrating the history of the region with global events, Schoen reveals how white farmers, planters, and merchants created a \"Cotton South, \" preserved its profitability for many years, and ensured its dominance in the international raw cotton markets. The story he tells reveals the opportunities and costs of cotton production for the Lower South and the United States.
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Age of internationalism and Belgium, 1880-1930
Belgium was a major hub for transnational movements. By taking this small and yet significant European country as a focal point, the book critically examines major issues in modern history, including nationalism, colonial expansion, debates on the nature of international relations and campaigns for political and social equality.Now available in paperback, this study explores an age in which many groups and communities – from socialists to scientists – organised themselves across national borders. The timeframe covers the rise of international movements and associations before the First World War, the conflagration of 1914 and the emergence of new actors such as the League of Nations. The book acknowledges the changing framework for transnational activism, including its interplay with domestic politics and international institutions.By tracing international movements and ideas, the book aims to reveal and explain the multifarious and sometimes contradictory nature of internationalism.
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British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927
In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights from the Chinese state; it inhabited the space made by extraterritoriality by building institutions and engaging in practices which had consequences for the development of the treaty ports, and which need to be at the forefront of any attempt to understand colonialism in China. Through a focus both on the creation of law and institutions, and also on the management of British ‘problem populations’ – violent Europeans and ‘martial’ Indians – this book provides a revision of the history of empire and colonialism in China, explaining important features which have to date been glossed over in studies of other aspects of treaty port colonialism. Colonialism in China casts a long shadow, but key aspects of the British state’s central role in this history have before now been little understood.
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European small states and the role of consuls in the age of empire
\"It would be difficult to exaggerate the significance of merchant shipping in the evolution of international relations. Historically, questions of merchant shipping have preoccupied government officials; maritime policies have been at the centre of mercantilism, imperialism, and war\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fragile Fabric of Union
Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue, 1787 -- 1 The Threads of a Global Loom: Cotton, Slavery, and Union in an Interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820 -- Cotton, Empire, and Nation -- The Formation of a Transatlantic Cotton Interest -- Cotton's \"Revolution\" and Its Limits -- 2 Calculating the Cost of Union: Nationalism and Sectionalism in a Republican Era, 1796-1818 -- The Cotton South and a Republican Coalition of \"Equals\" -- \"The Honor of Bearing It Best\": Cotton, Commercial Warfare, and War -- Peace Abroad, Dissension at Home: Republicans Active and Passive -- 3 Protecting Slavery and Free Trade: The Political Economy of Cotton, 1818-1833 -- Panic and Protection -- Cotton and a Harmonious Domestic and International Division of Labor -- \"Unequal\" Protection under the Law and Cotton's Minority Status -- 4 Building Bridges to the West and the World: Empowerment and Anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848 -- Publishing the \"Banns\" of Marriage: The Search for Lower South Commercial Advancement -- American Proslavery Thought in the Age of British Abolition -- The Second Party System in the Cotton South -- 5 An Unnatural Union: King Cotton and Lower South Secession, 1849-1860 -- Economic Advancement in an Age of Democratic Ascendance -- Converting Friends to Enemies and Enemies to Friends: The Search for Natural Allies -- Realists Decide: Election and Secession -- Epilogue, 1861 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Empires in the sun : the struggle for the mastery of Africa
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates and analyses how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa.
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The Eternal Paddy
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The Eternal Paddy , Michael de Nie examines anti-Irish prejudice, Anglo-Irish relations, and the construction of Irish and British identities in nineteenth-century Britain. This book provides a new, more inclusive approach to the study of Irish identity as perceived by Britons and demonstrates that ideas of race were inextricably connected with class concerns and religious prejudice in popular views of both peoples. De Nie suggests that while traditional anti-Irish stereotypes were fundamental to British views of Ireland, equally important were a collection of sympathetic discourses and a self-awareness of British prejudice. In the pages of the British newspaper press, this dialogue created a deep ambivalence about the Irish people, an ambivalence that allowed most Britons to assume that the root of Ireland’s difficulties lay in its Irishness. Drawing on more than ninety newspapers published in England, Scotland, and Wales,
The Eternal Paddy offers the first major detailed analysis of British press coverage of Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book traces the evolution of popular understandings and proposed solutions to the \"Irish question,\" focusing particularly on the interrelationship between the press, the public, and the politicians. The work also engages with ongoing studies of imperialism and British identity, exploring the role of Catholic Ireland in British perceptions of their own identity and their empire.
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