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Builders of a New South : Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914 /

Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were ab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Anderson, Aaron D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Old ways and new realities
  • Merchant communities
  • Crop liens, freedmen, and planters
  • A new kind of planter
  • Merchant life and social capital
  • A dangerous business.