Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation / / John Majewski
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| Autore: |
Majewski John D. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation / / John Majewski
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.975/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Economic aspects - Southern States |
| Agriculture - Economic aspects - Southern States | |
| Economic development - Confederate States of America - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Confederate States of America Economic conditions |
| Confederate States of America Economic policy | |
| Confederate States of America Politics and government | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modernizing a slave economy |
| ISBN: | 979-88-9313-227-4 |
| 1-4696-0327-6 | |
| 0-8078-8237-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817162203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Civil War America.