Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade

In: Jeffersonian America Series

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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Mississippi River Trade to 1783 -- 1 The Colonial River -- 2 Kentucky Land, Cash, and the Mississippi -- 3 The River at War -- Part II. The Closure of the River and Sectional Crisis, 1784-1795 -- 4 An Imperial Problem -- 5 Trading without the River -- 6 Chickasaw Country -- Part III. Western Trade, Atlantic World, 1796-1803 -- 7 Cotton and the Americanization of Natchez -- 8 American Trade in a Spanish Port -- 9 The Chickasaw Trace -- 10 Buying the Mississippi -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent books in the series.

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Empire of commerce: the closing of the Mississippi and the opening of Atlantic trade

In: Jeffersonian America

Stearns, Susan Gaunt

Stearns, Susan Gaunt

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"In Empire of Commerce, Susan Gaunt Stearns takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States' untrammeled westward expansion. Her work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic. Stearns's perspective-shifting book reconfigures our understanding of key postrevolutionary moments-the writing of the Constitution, the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana Purchase-and demonstrates how the transatlantic cotton trade finally set the stage for transforming an imagined west into something real."

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