19th century
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agricultural commodities
America
anthropology
archaeology
Author_Christopher C. Fennell
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Christopher Fennell
commodity chains
D.C.
diaspora
economy
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ethnicity
free African Americans
frontier
German-American farmers
Germany
global commodity chains
heritage
Illinois
immigration
Ireland
Native American
New Philadelphia
Race
Rights
sexism
structural racism
transatlantic trade
United States
Virginia
Washington
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062457
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Using two case studies from different frontier regions in nineteenth-century America, this book reveals how marginalized ethnic and racial communities resisted the attempts of governing officials and investors to control them through capitalist economic and government frameworks. In backcountry Virginia, immigrants from Germany opted to purchase ceramic wares produced by their own local communities instead of buying manufactured goods supplied by urban centers like Washington, D.C. In Illinois, free African Americans in the town of New Philadelphia worked to obtain land and produce agricultural commodities, defying structural racism that was meant to channel resources and economic value away from them. These small choices and actions had large ripple effects. Looking at the economic systems of these regions in relation to transatlantic and global factors, Christopher Fennell offers rare insight into the development of America’s consumer economy.
