Merchants'' Capital - New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South

Informationen zum Autor Scott P. Marler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses in US, Southern, and Atlantic World history. A former editor at the Journal of Southern History, his work was a finalist for the Allen Nevins Dissertation Prize of the Economic History Association, and he has also won awards from the St George Tucker Society and the Louisiana Historical Association. Klappentext This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung New Orleans! the nineteenth-century South's only true metropolis! originally derived its prosperity as the chief export point for slave-produced commodities! most notably cotton. This book focuses on the city's merchants and how their conservative investment mentalities contributed to New Orleans' unusually rapid economic downfall during and after the Civil War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: merchants of the cotton South in the age of capital; Part I. The Antebellum Era: 1. Merchants and bankers in the 'great emporium of the South'; 2. New Orleans merchants and the failure of industrial development; 3. Rural merchants on the cotton frontier of antebellum Louisiana; Part II. The Civil War: 4. From secession to the fall of New Orleans, 1860-2; 5. Bankers and merchants in occupied Louisiana - the Butler regime; Part III. Reconstruction: 6. New Orleans merchants and the political economy of reconstruction; 7. The economic decline of postbellum New Orleans; 8. Rural merchants and the reconstruction of Louisiana agriculture; 9. Epilogue: merchant capital and economic development in the postbellum South.

Product details

• Authors: Scott P. Marler, Scott P. (University of Memphis) Marler, Marler Scott P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2013
• EAN: 9780521897648
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89764-8
• No. of pages: 327
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Louisiana, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Political Economy, History of the Americas, Central Southern States