From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation 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 From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South write by Joseph P. Reidy. This book was released on 2000-11-09. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of 'the age of capital' and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, connecting global forces with the initiatives and reactions of ordinary southerners, black and white.--Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago "Joseph Reidy's detailed analysis of social and economic developments in central Georgia during and after slavery will take its place among the standard works on these subjects. Its discussions of the expansion of the cotton kingdom and of the changes after emancipation make it necessary reading for all concerned with southern and African-American history.--Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester "Successfully places the experience of one region's people into the larger theoretical context of world capitalist development and in the process challenges other scholars to do the same.--Rural Sociology
The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War
The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War - 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 Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War write by Charles S. Aiken. This book was released on 2020-03-24. The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Originally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "is among the most misunderstood institutions of American history. The demise of the plantation has been pronounced many times, but the large industrial farms survive as significant parts of, not just the South's, but the nation's agriculture."In this sweeping historical and geographical account, Aiken traces the development of the Southern cotton plantation since the Civil War—from the emergence of tenancy after 1865, through its decline during the Depression, to the post-World War Two development of the large industrial farm. Tracing the geographical changes in plantation agriculture and the plantation regions after 1865, Aiken shows how the altered landscape of the South has led many to the false conclusion that the plantation has vanished. In fact, he explains, while certain regions of the South have reverted to other uses, the cotton plantation survives in a form that is, in many ways, remarkably similar to that of its antebellum predecessors. Aiken also describes the evolving relationship of African-Americans to the cotton plantation during the thirteen decades of economic, social, and political changes from Reconstruction through the War on Poverty—including the impact of alterations in plantation agriculture and the mass migration of Southern blacks to the urban North during the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation 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 The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South write by Raimondo Luraghi. This book was released on 1978. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings through the Civil War.
Slavery's Capitalism
Slavery's Capitalism - 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 Slavery's Capitalism write by Sven Beckert. This book was released on 2016-07-28. Slavery's Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market. Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery's importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom. Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. Rothman, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Shankman, Craig Steven Wilder.
Plantation Kingdom
Plantation Kingdom - 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 Plantation Kingdom write by Richard Follett. This book was released on 2016-04. Plantation Kingdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.
