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Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue, 1787
  • The threads of a global loom : cotton, slavery, and union in an interdependent Atlantic, 1789-1820
  • Calculating the cost of union : nationalism and sectionalism in a Republican era, 1796-1818
  • Protecting slavery and free trade : the political economy of cotton, 1818-1833
  • Building bridges to the West and the world : empowerment and anxiety in the Second Party System, 1834-1848
  • An unnatural union : King Cotton and the lower South secession, 1849-1860
  • Epilogue, 1861.