Empire of Commerce. The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade, Paperback/Susan Gaunt Stearns

Takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States’ untrammeled westward expansion. Susan Gaunt Stearns ’ work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic. Publisher: University of Virginia Press Author(s): Susan Gaunt Stearns Illustration(s): 5 b&w illus., 3 maps Number of pages: 314 Collection: Jeffersonian America Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 24 Cover type: Paperback