Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.Ĭhapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. By examining the turbulent history of Texas from the late Spanish colonial period until the years following its annexation to the United States, Torget's innovative monograph offers important insights into the struggles over territorial sovereignty in North America, the growth of the cotton frontier along the Gulf Coast after 1800, debates over slavery in the Mexican Republic, and the growing significance of the international abolitionist movement by the middle of the nineteenth century.Andrew J. borders and remade northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the American South' (5). Torget argues that the history of Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century was part of a much larger story in which the powerful forces of the global cotton economy reached 'beyond U.S. Torget's Seeds of Empire is a work of major scholarly significance for historians of Texas, northeastern Mexico, the Slave South, and the U.S.

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press ī o o k rev i ews Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 18001850. Civil War historians will be especially interested in Torget's contention that the swift By examining the turbulent history of Texas from the late Spanish colonial period until the years following its annexation to the United States, Torget's innovative monograph offers important insights into the struggles over territorial sovereignty in North America, the growth of the cotton frontier along the Gulf Coast after 1800, debates over slavery in the Mexican Republic, and the growing significance of the international abolitionist movement by the middle of the nineteenth century. Torget (review) Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 by.ī o o k rev i ews Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 18001850.

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