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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
Editions of A Deplorable Scarcity
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807814475
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780807854464
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469639987
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890874528
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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
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History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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A Deplorable Scarcity has 250 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book A Deplorable Scarcity?
Fred Bateman, Thomas Weiss
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A Deplorable Scarcity is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807814475) and paperback(ISBN 9780807854464) and ebook(ISBN 9781469639987) and pdf(ISBN 9798890874528)
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