Plantation Kingdom - The American South and Its Global Commodities

Informationen zum Autor Richard Follett is a professor of American history at the University of Sussex and the author of The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 . Klappentext How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees. In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later--after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets--America's plantations lay in ruins. Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and fall of America's plantation economy. Written by four renowned historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and sharecropping replaced slavery's work gangs across most of the plantation world. Poverty and forced labor haunted the region well into the twentieth century. The book explores the importance of slavery to the Old South, the astounding profitability of plantation agriculture, and the legacy of emancipation. It also examines the place of American producers in world markets and considers the impact of globalization and international competition 150 years ago. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study. Zusammenfassung Written for scholars and students alike! Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study. ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sven Beckert, Sven (Harvard University) Beckert, Beckert Sven, Peter Coclanis, Peter (University of North Carolina Coclanis, Coclanis Peter, Richard Follett, Richard (University of Sussex) Follett, Richard (University of Sussex) Beckert Follett, Follett Richard, Barbara M Hahn, Barbara M. Hahn, Barbara M. (Texas Tech University) Hahn
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.05.2016
• EAN: 9781421419404
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-1940-4
• Pagine: 176
• Serie: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Local History, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, History and Archaeology, Slavery and abolition of slavery, US South, plantation, slavery, south, emancipation