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Broken chains and subverted plans : ethnicity, race, and commodities
Using two case studies from different frontier regions in 19th-century America, this work reveals how marginalised ethnic and racial communities resisted the attempts of governing officials and investors to control them through capitalist economic and government frameworks. Looking at the economic s...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville
: University Press of Florida
, September 2017
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062457.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Christopher C. Fennell |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection |
| Summary: | Using two case studies from different frontier regions in 19th-century America, this work reveals how marginalised ethnic and racial communities resisted the attempts of governing officials and investors to control them through capitalist economic and government frameworks. Looking at the economic systems of these regions, Christopher Fennell offers insight into the development of America's consumer economy. Introduction: Subversions, ethnic dynamics, and racism -- Elite strategies, local networks -- Part 1: Ethnicity and commodity chains in nineteenth-century Virginia -- George Washington's great emporium -- The testimony of merchants -- Ethnic networks and a cultural landscape in the backcountry -- Local archaeology and transatlantic competitions -- Concluding observations: Ethnic networks in a Mid-Atlantic periphery -- Part 2: Racism, land, and freedom in nineteenth-century Illinois -- Overcoming enslavement with toil, gunpowder, and land -- Racism's waste and resilient entrepreneurs -- Surmounting adversities in the Land of Lincoln -- Concluding observations: Understanding histories with concepts of race and ethnicity |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2017.. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9780813053240 |
