Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century
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Köp båda 2 för 874 krJeff Forret is professor of history and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. His books include Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts and Slave against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South, winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Bruce E. Baker is reader in American history at Newcastle University. He has published widely on topics related to southern history, including lynching, Reconstruction, historical memory, New Orleans, the cotton trade, and crime.
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, 18401843,"" 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