Journals of Gilbert White

Science & Math

Johnson, Walter

History & Philosophy

Univ Of Il+press

<p>Johnson, Walter, Strindberg And The Historical Drama</p>

Strindberg and the Historical Drama

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

<p><div> <div><b>A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike--a legacy of resistance that endures.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, <i>The Broken Heart of America</i> will forever change how we think about the United States.</div> </div></p>

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Business & Money

Economics

Basic Books

<p><i>Soul by Soul</i> tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved.</p>
<p>Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders’ letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market’s slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by “feeding them up,” dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage.</p>
<p>Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution” in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery.</p>

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

History

Africa

Harvard University Press

<p>When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. <i>River of Dark Dreams</i> places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.</p>
<p><br>Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters’ pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton’s dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale.</p>
<p><br>But at the center of the story Johnson tells are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton—who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.</p>

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Belknap Press

<p> <i>Soul by Soul</i> tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved. </p>
<p> Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders' letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market's slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by "feeding them up," dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage. </p>
<p> Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the "peculiar institution" in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery. </p>

Americas

<p>Winner of the SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic<br>Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians<br> A <i>Choice </i>Outstanding Academic Title of the Year</p>
<br><p>“[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years.”<br>―Timothy Shenk, <i>The Nation</i></p>
<p>“<i>River of Dark Dreams</i> is an important, arguably seminal, book… It is always trenchant and learned. And in highly compelling fashion, it helps us more fully appreciate how thoroughly the slaveholding South was part of the capitalist transatlantic world of the first half of the 19th century.”<br>―Mark M. Smith, <i>Wall Street Journal</i></p>
<p>“Walter Johnson’s <i>River of Dark Dreams</i> shows how the Cotton Kingdom of the 19th-century Deep South, far from being a backward outpost of feudalism, was a dynamic engine of capitalist expansion built on enslaved labor.”<br>―A. O. Scott, <i>New York Times</i></p>
<p>“<i>River of Dark Dreams</i> delivers spectacularly on the long-standing mission to write ‘history from the bottom up.’”<br>―Maya Jasanoff, <i>New York Review of Books</i></p>
<p>“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully as <i>River of Dark Dreams</i>.”<br>―Ari Kelman, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></p>

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

These highly original, revealing accounts are based on interviews or written by workers themselves. "Johnson's book is dominated by the most articulate and aware workers who are involved, self-sacrificing and critical."--Books in Canada

Working in Canada (Black rose books ; no. E25)

Black Rose Books

Folk-Memory

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Journals of Gilbert White

Strindberg and the Historical Drama

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Working in Canada (Black rose books ; no. E25)

Folk-Memory

Folk-Memory