Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War - Couverture souple

Wright, Gavin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807120987 ISBN 13 : 9780807120989

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this provocative and intricate analysis of the postbellum southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labor market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wright explains, the South continued to be a low-wage regional market embedded in a high-wage national economy. He vividly details the origins, workings, and ultimate demise of that distinct system. The post-World War II southern economy, which created today's Sunbelt, Wright shows, is not the result of the evolution of the old system, but the product of a revolution brought on by the New Deal and World War II that shattered the South's stagnant structure and created a genuinely new, thriving order.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807120987
• ISBN 13: 9780807120989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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