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Southern Scoundrels : Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century /
"The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the northern states. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of works on capitalism in the South. Still, these have primarily been macroeconomic studies emphasizing the role of the cotton...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jeff Forret and Bruce E. Baker
- Preachers and Peddlers: Credit and Belief in the Flush Times / John Lindbeck
- A Gentleman and a Scoundrel? Alexander McDonald, Financial Reputation, and Slavery's Capitalism / Alexandra J. Finley
- "How Deeply They Weed into the Pockets": Slave Traders, Bank Speculators, and the Anatomy of a Chesapeake Wildcat, 1840-1843 / Jeff Forret
- Bernard Kendig: Orchestrating Fraud in the Market and the Courtroom / Maria R. Montalvo
- William A. Britton v. Benjamin F. Butler: Occupied New Orleans, Confiscation, and the Disruption of the Cotton Trade in Wartime Natchez / Jeff Strickland
- Devils at the Doorstep: Confederate Judges, Masters of Sequestration / Rodney J. Steward
- "Irresistibly Impelled toward Illegal Appropriation": The Civil War Schemes of William G. Cheeney / Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
- Das Kapital on Tchoupitoulas Street: The Marketing of Stolen Goods and the Reserve Army of Labor in Reconstruction-Era New Orleans / Bruce E. Baker
- The Violent Lives of William Faucett / Elaine S. Frantz
- Eureka! Law and Order for Sale in Gilded Age Appalachia / T. R. C. Hutton.