{"title":"Seth Rockman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you're passionate about history and eager to delve into the intricate nuances of historical narratives, the works of Seth Rockman are indispensable additions to your reading list. With a focus on American history, particularly the antebellum period, Rockman's writings offer a profound insight into the intersection of labour, economy, and society during a pivotal era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"Plantation Goods,\" Rockman meticulously examines the economic frameworks of the plantation systems, shedding light on the commodities that underpin this complex epoch of American history. His attention to detail and ability to weave economic theory with historical narratives make his books not only educational but also engaging and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRockman's scholarly yet accessible style ensures that whether you're a history enthusiast or a student, his books serve as invaluable resources that challenge conventional perspectives while providing a comprehensive understanding of the past. This collection under the \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e category is perfect for readers seeking to deepen their knowledge of the socio-economic dynamics that shaped the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"plantation-goods-by-seth-rockman-9780226723457","title":"Plantation Goods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labour.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe industrialising North and the agricultural South—that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing \u003cem\u003eplantation goods\u003c\/em\u003e—the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South—historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans—white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free—across an expanding nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy following the stories of material objects, such as shoes made by Massachusetts farm women that found their way to the feet of a Mississippi slave, Rockman reveals a national economy organised by slavery—a slavery that outsourced the production of its supplies to the North, and a North that outsourced its slavery to the South. Melding business and labour history through powerful storytelling, \u003cem\u003ePlantation Goods\u003c\/em\u003e brings northern industrialists, southern slaveholders, enslaved field hands, and paid factory labourers into the same picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn one part of the country, entrepreneurs envisioned fortunes to be made from \"planter's hoes\" and rural women spent their days weaving \"negro cloth\" and assembling \"slave brogans.\" In another, enslaved people actively consumed textiles and tools imported from the North to contest their bondage. In between, merchants, marketers, storekeepers, and debt collectors laid claim to the profits of a thriving interregional trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, \u003cem\u003ePlantation Goods\u003c\/em\u003e explores how people in the nineteenth century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation. Rockman brings together lines of American history that have for too long been told separately, as slavery and capitalism converge in something as deceptively ordinary as a humble pair of shoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000706449644,"sku":"9780226723457","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19462853482268.jpg?v=1763299123"},{"product_id":"plantation-goods-by-seth-rockman-9780226849270","title":"Plantation Goods","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labour.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe industrialising North and the agricultural South—that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing \u003cem\u003eplantation goods\u003c\/em\u003e—the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South—historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans—white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free—across an expanding nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy following the stories of material objects, such as shoes made by Massachusetts farm women that found their way to the feet of a Mississippi slave, Rockman reveals a national economy organised by slavery—a slavery that outsourced the production of its supplies to the North, and a North that outsourced its slavery to the South. 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