03436nam 22006732 450 991078610940332120151005020623.01-107-35722-51-107-23386-01-107-34385-21-107-34760-21-107-34874-91-107-34510-31-107-34135-31-139-05139-3(CKB)2670000000343966(EBL)1139658(OCoLC)843192078(SSID)ssj0000861051(PQKBManifestationID)11943778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000861051(PQKBWorkID)10916141(PQKB)11498752(UkCbUP)CR9781139051392(MiAaPQ)EBC1139658(Au-PeEL)EBL1139658(CaPaEBR)ebr10695334(CaONFJC)MIL494725(EXLCZ)99267000000034396620110307d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Merchants' Capital New Orleans and the political economy of the Nineteenth-Century South /Scott P. Marler[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies on the American SouthTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-55754-2 0-521-89764-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. The antebellum era -- pt. II. Secession and war -- pt. III. Reconstruction.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 improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty.Cambridge studies on the American South.New Orleans (La.)CommerceHistory19th centuryNew Orleans (La.)Economic conditions19th centurySouthern StatesCommerceHistory19th centurySouthern StatesEconomic conditions19th centurySouthern StatesEconomic policy330.9763/3505Marler Scott P.1963-1495375UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910786109403321The Merchants' Capital3719443UNINA