Roger L. Ransom

One Kind of Freedom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This economic history classic examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 938g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791694
• ISBN-10: 0521791693
• Artikelnr.: 21304456

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the new edition
Acknowledgements
A note to the reader
1. What did freedom mean?
2. The legacy of slavery
3. The myth of the prostrate South
4. The demise of the plantation
5. Agricultural reconstruction
6. Financial reconstruction
7. The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly
8. The trap of debt peonage
9. The roots of southern poverty
Statistical appendixes
Epilogue
A bibliography of literature on the South after 1977
Notes
Bibliography
Index.