Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Cotton Regency
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Cotton Regency
Author: George R. WoolfolkThe cotton regency, the northern merchants...
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Cotton Regency
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cotton Regency
Author: George Ruble WoolfolkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Merchants' Capital
Author: Scott P. MarlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521897645
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.
Reunion and Reaction
Author: C. Vann WoodwardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199727856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with the Union, it did lay down the political foundations for reunion, bring Reconstruction to an end, and shape the future of four million freedmen. Originally published in 1951, this classic work by one of America's foremost experts on Southern history presents an important new interpretation of the Compromise, forcing historians to revise previous attitudes towards the Reconstruction period, the history of the Republican party, and the realignment of forces that fought the Civil War. Because much of the negotiating occurred in secrecy, historians have known less about this Compromise than others before it. Now reissued with a new introduction by Woodward, Reunion and Reaction gives us the other half of the story.
Katrina's Imprint
Author: Keith WailooPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813547733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed vulnerability and resilience and shape prospects for the recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf region. It offers the argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons we have learned from Katrina.--Book jacket.
Confederate Industry
Author: Harold S. WilsonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604730722
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph lines, and institutions of higher learning. Only the major European powers and the North had more cotton and woolen spindles. This book examines the Confederate military's program to govern this prosperous industrial base by a quartermaster system. By commandeering more than half the South's produced goods for the military, the quartermaster general, in a drift toward socialism, appropriated hundreds of mills and controlled the flow of southern factory commodities. The most controversial of the quartermasters general was Colonel Abraham Charles Myers. His iron hand set the controls of southern manufacturing throughout the war. His capable successor, Brigadier General Alexander R. Lawton, conducted the first census of Confederate resources, established the plan of production and distribution, and organized the Bureau of Foreign Supplies in a strategy for importing parts, machinery, goods, and military uniforms. While the Confederacy mobilized its mills for military purposes, the Union systematically planned their destruction. The Union blockade ended the effectiveness of importing goods, and under the Union army's General Order 100 Confederate industry was crushed. The great antebellum manufacturing boom was over. Scarcity and impoverishment in the postbellum South brought manufacturers to the forefront of southern political and ideological leadership. Allied for the cause of southern development were former Confederate generals, newspaper editors, educators, and President Andrew Johnson himself, an investor in a southern cotton mill. Against this postwar mania to rebuild, this book tests old assumptions about southern industrial re-emergence. It discloses, even before the beginnings of Radical Reconstruction, that plans for a New South with an urban, industrialized society had been established on the old foundations and on an ideology asserting that only science, technology, and engineering could restore the region. Within this philosophical mold, Henry Grady, one of the New South's great reformers, led the way for southern manufacturing. By the beginning of the First World War half the nation's spindles lay within the former Confed-eracy, home of a new boom in manufacturing and the land of America's staple crop, cotton. Harold S. Wilson is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. He is the author of McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers and of articles published in African American Studies, The Historian, the Journal of Confederate History, and Alabama Review. Learn more about the author at http: //members.cox.net/haroldwilson/
New York Merchants and the Cotton Trade 1865-1876
Author: Mary Margaret CochranPublisher:
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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