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Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860

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Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860 - Downey, Tom
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Planting a Capitalist South effectively challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South. By analyzing the interplay of planters, merchants, and manufacturers, the author characterizes the South as a sphere of contending types of capitalists: agrarians with land and slaves versus commercial and industrial owners of banks, railroads, stores, and factories. A revisionary study, Planting a Capitalist South offers clear evidence of a ...

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Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860 2009, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807135310

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Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860 2006, LSU Press

ISBN-13: 9780807131077

Hardcover