A Deplorable Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Deplorable Scarcity write by Fred Bateman. This book was released on 2017-10-10. A Deplorable Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South
Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South write by Michael S. Frawley. This book was released on 2019-05-08. Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to explain why the Confederacy succumbed to the Union. Even after the cliometric revolution of the 1970s, when historians first began applying statistical analysis to reexamine antebellum manufacturing output, the pervasive belief in the region’s backward-ness prompted many scholars to view slavery, not industry, as the economic engine of the South. In Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South, historian Michael S. Frawley engages a wide variety of sources—including United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar South—to show how industrial development in the region has been systematically minimized by scholars. In doing so, Frawley reconsiders factors related to industrial production in the prewar South, such as the availability of natural resources, transportation, markets, labor, and capital. He contends that the Gulf South was far more industrialized and modern than suggested by census records, economic historians like Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, and contemporary travel writers such as Frederick Law Olmsted. Frawley situates the prewar South firmly in a varied and widespread industrial context, contesting the assumption that slavery inhibited industry in the region and that this lack of economic diversity ultimately prevented the Confederacy from waging a successful war. Though southern manufacturing firms could not match the output of northern states, Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South proves that such entities had established themselves as vital forces in the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War.
Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860
Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 write by Susanna Delfino. This book was released on 2011-06-15. Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 write by John Ashworth. This book was released on 2012-08-27. The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.
A Southern Community in Crisis
A Southern Community in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Southern Community in Crisis write by Randolph B. Campbell. This book was released on 2016-11-18. A Southern Community in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes of disunion, the course of the war, and the bitter disputes that arose during restoration of the Union. Much less attention has been given to studying how ordinary people experienced the years from 1861 to 1876. What did secession, civil war, emancipation, victory for the United States, and Reconstruction mean at the local level in Texas? Exactly how much change—economic, social, and political—did the era bring to the focus of the study, Harrison County: a cotton-growing, planter-dominated community with the largest slave population of any county in the state? Providing an answer to that question is the basic purpose of A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850–1880. First published by the Texas State Historical Association in 1983, the book is now available in paperback, with a foreword by Andrew J. Torget, one of the Lone Star State’s top young historians.
