Modernizing a Slave Economy - 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 Modernizing a Slave Economy write by John Majewski. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Modernizing a Slave Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. They blamed the South's lack of development on Union policies of discriminatory taxes on southern commerce and unfair subsidies for northern industry. Majewski argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building.
A Deplorable Scarcity
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.
The Political Economy of Slavery
The Political Economy of Slavery - 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 Political Economy of Slavery write by Eugene D. Genovese. This book was released on 1989. The Political Economy of Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - 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 Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men write by Jeffrey Hummel. This book was released on 2013-12-10. Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combines a sweeping narrative history of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. A unique feature of the book is the bibliographical essays which follow every chapter. Here the author surveys the literature and points out where his own interpretation fits into the continuing clash of viewpoints which informs historical debate on 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.
