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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2013.
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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.