Bøger af Robert H. Gudmestad

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.

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 honour, master-slave relationships, and the justii cation of slavery in the antebellum South.