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Slavery and American Economic Development - (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by Gavin Wright (Paperback)

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  • Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era.
  • About the Author: Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association.
  • 176 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Economic History
  • Series Name: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History

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Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization--the aspect that has dominated historical debates--and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.



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"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and new."--Charles B. Dew "Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

"A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic history and what is perhaps the most important book in the field since Time on the Cross. . . . I frequently found myself forced to rethink long-held positions."--Russell R. Menard "Civil War History"



About the Author



Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Economic History
Series Title: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
Publisher: LSU Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Gavin Wright
Language: English
Street Date: February 18, 2013
TCIN: 88982807
UPC: 9780807152287
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-7214
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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