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Modernizing a slave economy : the economic vision of the Confederate nation /
What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? This was something that southern seccessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The tra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Civil War America (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.