LEADER 03436nam 22006732 450 001 9910819850703321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-107-35722-5 010 $a1-107-23386-0 010 $a1-107-34385-2 010 $a1-107-34760-2 010 $a1-107-34874-9 010 $a1-107-34510-3 010 $a1-107-34135-3 010 $a1-139-05139-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000343966 035 $a(EBL)1139658 035 $a(OCoLC)843192078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000861051 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11943778 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000861051 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10916141 035 $a(PQKB)11498752 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139051392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1139658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1139658 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10695334 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL494725 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000343966 100 $a20110307d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Merchants' Capital $eNew Orleans and the political economy of the Nineteenth-Century South /$fScott P. Marler$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies on the American South 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-55754-2 311 $a0-521-89764-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. I. The antebellum era -- pt. II. Secession and war -- pt. III. Reconstruction. 330 $aAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty. 410 0$aCambridge studies on the American South. 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xCommerce$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 607 $aSouthern States$xCommerce$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aSouthern States$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 607 $aSouthern States$xEconomic policy 676 $a330.9763/3505 700 $aMarler$b Scott P.$f1963-$01665307 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819850703321 996 $aThe Merchants' Capital$94023845 997 $aUNINA