Plantation kingdom : the American South and its global commodities

Publication Data

• Title Plantation kingdom : the American South and its global commodities
• Contributors Richard J. Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter A. Coclanis, Barbara Hahn
• Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date 2016
• Publication location Baltimore
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Richard Follett
The road to commodity hell: the rise and fall of the first American rice industry / Peter A. Coclanis
Cotton and the US South: a short history / Sven Beckert
The rise and fall of American sugar / Richard Follett
Tobacco's commodity route / Barbara Hahn
Conclusion / Richard Follett.

Topics

• Plantations :: Economic aspects :: Southern States :: History
• Agriculture :: Economic aspects :: Southern States :: History
• Tobacco industry :: Southern States :: History
• Rice trade :: Southern States :: History
• Sugar trade :: Southern States :: History
• Cotton trade :: Southern States :: History
• Slavery :: Economic aspects :: Southern States :: History
• African Americans :: Southern States :: Economic conditions
• Slaves :: United States :: Social conditions
• Southern States :: Economic conditions
• Southern States

Plantation kingdom : the American South and its global commodities. ISBN 9781421419404. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2016. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.