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Autore |
Marler Scott P. <1963-> |
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The Merchants' Capital : New Orleans and the political economy of the Nineteenth-Century South / / Scott P. Marler [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-35722-5 |
1-107-23386-0 |
1-107-34385-2 |
1-107-34760-2 |
1-107-34874-9 |
1-107-34510-3 |
1-107-34135-3 |
1-139-05139-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies on the American South |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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New Orleans (La.) Commerce History 19th century |
New Orleans (La.) Economic conditions 19th century |
Southern States Commerce History 19th century |
Southern States Economic conditions 19th century |
Southern States Economic policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. The antebellum era -- pt. II. Secession and war -- pt. III. Reconstruction. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to |
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