03232nam 2200685Ia 450 991045770880332120200520144314.01-4696-0327-60-8078-8237-2(CKB)2550000000064886(EBL)797777(OCoLC)769189703(SSID)ssj0000539226(PQKBManifestationID)11360944(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539226(PQKBWorkID)10568278(PQKB)10840109(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245472(MiAaPQ)EBC797777(MiAaPQ)EBC4322012(MdBmJHUP)muse23459(Au-PeEL)EBL797777(CaPaEBR)ebr10511448(EXLCZ)99255000000006488620080828d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrModernizing a slave economy[electronic resource] the economic vision of the Confederate nation /John MajewskiChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (257 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1491-X 0-8078-3251-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Imagining a Confederate economy -- Shifting cultivation, slavery, and economic development -- Agricultural reform and state activism -- Explaining Lieber's paradox : railroads, state building, and slavery -- Redefining free trade to modernize the South -- Economic nationalism and the growth of the Confederate state -- Statistical appendix: The origins and impact of shifting cultivation.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-ledCivil War America.SlaveryEconomic aspectsSouthern StatesAgricultureEconomic aspectsSouthern StatesEconomic developmentConfederate States of AmericaHistoryConfederate States of AmericaEconomic conditionsConfederate States of AmericaEconomic policyConfederate States of AmericaPolitics and governmentElectronic books.SlaveryEconomic aspectsAgricultureEconomic aspectsEconomic developmentHistory.330.975/03Majewski John D.1965-862321MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457708803321Modernizing a slave economy1924882UNINA