Modernizing a slave economy
Subtitle: the economic vision of the Confederate nation
By: John Majewski.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807832516
Subjects: Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States; Economic development -- Confederate States of America -- History; Confederate States of America -- Economic conditions; Confederate States of America -- Economic policy; Confederate States of America -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Imagining a Confederate economy; title: Shifting cultivation, slavery, and economic development; title: Agricultural reform and state activism; title: Explaining Lieber's paradox : railroads, state building, and slavery; title: Redefining free trade to modernize the South; title: Economic nationalism and the growth of the Confederate state; title: Statistical appendix: The origins and impact of shifting cultivation.