Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities

by Christopher C. Fennell

Using case studies from frontier regions in nineteenth-century Virginia and Illinois, this book reveals how marginalized ethnic and racial communities thwarted the attempts of officials and investors to control them through capitalist economic systems, global commodity chains, and development plans.

In backcountry Virginia, German immigrants opted to purchase ceramic wares produced by their own local communities instead of buying manufactured...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813062454
• ISBN13: 9780813062457
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"