Seeds of Empire

Book Review| August 01 2018 Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850 Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850. By Torget, Andrew J.. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 353 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Alice Baumgartner Alice Baumgartner Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 539–541. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933820 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alice Baumgartner; Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 539–541. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933820 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search By linking the usually separate fields of Southern and Mexican history, Seeds of Empire provides a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Texas borderlands in the first half of the nineteenth century. Andrew Torget's account shows, once and for all, that the Texas Revolution (1835–36) was due neither to Manifest Destiny nor to intractable cultural differences but to conflicts between cotton producers and the Mexican government over the agricultural and economic development of Coahuila y Texas.Seeds of Empire offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the origins of Anglo settlement in the Texas borderlands. The book opens with an image of desolation—a haunting description of the flood that nearly destroyed drought-stricken San Antonio in 1819. Although the natural topography and climate contributed to the forsaken condition of northern New Spain, Torget argues that “a century of neglect and mismanagement by Spanish... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content

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