Gudmestad Robert (48 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Gruenwald, "The invention of the steamboat was intended for US": steamboats and western history in the early Republic. Gudmestad, A history of the steamboat Eclipse. Crisman, The heroine of Louisville: archaeological discoveries from an 1830s-era western river steamboat. Tate, Tunnel trouble: building and rebuilding the Cincinnati Southern, 1869-1999. Crofts, In over his head: William J. Cooper's assessment of Lincoln's secession crisis role. Reviews. 10.5" tall; 96 pages. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Robert H. Gudmestad provides an in-depth examination of the growth and development of the interstate slave trade during the early nineteenth century, using the business as a means to explore economic change, the culture of honor, master-slave relationships, and the justiï¬cation of slavery in the antebellum South. Gudmestad demonstrates how southerners, faced with the incongruity of maintaining their paternalistic beliefs about slavery even while capitalistically exploiting their slaves, coped by disassociating themselves from the brutality and greed of the slave trade and shifting responsibility for slavery's realities to the speculators. In tracing the trans- formation of a troublesome commerce into a southern scapegoat, this pro- vocative work proves the interstate slave trade to be vital to the making- and understanding- of the paradoxical antebellum South.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought a river-based counterinsurgency war, raided plantations, and facilitated the freedom of thousands of enslaved people.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.