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16 produkter
The Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Av Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn
Inbunden, 2016
569 kr
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The Cotton Kings relates a rip-roaring drama of competition in the marketplace and reveals the damage markets can cause when they do not work properly. It also explains how they can be fixed through careful regulation. At the turn of the twentieth century, cotton was still the major agricultural …
Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Av Barbara Hahn, Bruce E. Baker
E-bok, 2015
416 kr
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The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this …
Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Av Barbara Hahn, Bruce E. Baker
E-bok, 2015
416 kr
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The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this …
Remembering Reconstruction
Struggles Over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era
Av Carole Emberton, Bruce E. Baker
Inbunden, 2017
585 kr
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Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war's meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar …
Southern Scoundrels
Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century
Av Jeff, Forret, Jeff Forret m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
474 kr
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The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to …
After Slavery
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
Av Brian Kelly, Bruce E. Baker
E-bok, 2013
1298 kr
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Moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in …
After Slavery
Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
Av Bruce E. Baker, Brian Kelly
Häftad, 2014
284 kr
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In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the anxiety felt by newly freed slaves and their allies …
What Reconstruction Meant
Historical Memory in the American South
Inbunden, 2007
546 kr
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A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging new book, Bruce Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in …
What Reconstruction Meant
Historical Memory in the American South
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this challenging book Bruce E. Baker looks at a related, and equally important, aspect of southern memory that has been treated by historians only in passing: …
Essential Skills for Historians
A Practical Guide to Researching the Past
Av J. Laurence Hare, Jack Wells m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
418 kr
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Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book …
Essential Skills for Historians
A Practical Guide to Researching the Past
Av J. Laurence Hare, Jack Wells m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1248 kr
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Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book …
Essential Skills for Historians
A Practical Guide to Researching the Past
Av J. Laurence Hare, Jack Wells m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book …
Essential Skills for Historians
A Practical Guide to Researching the Past
Av J. Laurence Hare, Jack Wells m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
409 kr
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Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book …
This Mob Will Surely Take My Life
Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947
E-bok, 2009
1133 kr
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This book traces the history of mob violence in North and South Carolina, probing the origins of a phenomenon that has left an open wound in the American psyche. Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil …
South at Work
Observations from 1904
Av William Garrott Brown, Bruce E. Baker
Häftad, 2014
350 kr
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In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton," Brown published twenty epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these …
This Mob Will Surely Take My Life
Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947
Inbunden, 2009
1029 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive history of lynching and mob violence in North and South Carolina, focusing on seven specific case studies from the region. Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil rights …
