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Author:

Majewski, John D., 1965-

Title:

Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation / John Majewski.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 240 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
Confederate States of America--Economic policy.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Southern States.
Economic development--Confederate States of America--History.
Confederate States of America--Politics and government.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-220) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Civil War America

ISBN:

0807832510 (alk. paper)
9780807832516 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)247962353

LCCN:

2008038371

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)