{"product_id":"2940177067322","title":"River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eChoice \u003c\/i\u003eOutstanding Academic Title of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years.”\u003cbr\u003e—Timothy Shenk, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRiver of Dark Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Mark M. Smith, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Walter Johnson’s \u003ci\u003eRiver of Dark Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—A. O. Scott, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRiver of Dark Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e delivers spectacularly on the long-standing mission to write ‘history from the bottom up.’”\u003cbr\u003e—Maya Jasanoff, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully as \u003ci\u003eRiver of Dark Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ari Kelman, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100462858480,"sku":"2940177067322","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940177067322_p0.jpg?v=1763596500","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940177067322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}