Gene Dattel

Gebundenes Buch

Cotton and Race in the Making of America

The Human Costs of Economic Power

Beschreibung

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South.

Autor

Gene Dattel grew up in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta and studied history at Yale and law at Vanderbilt. He then embarked on a twenty-year career in financial capital markets as a managing director at Salomon Brothers and at Morgan Stanley. A consultant to major financial institutions and to the Pentagon, he established a reputation as a foremost authority on Asian economies. His The Sun That Never Rose remains the definitive work on Japanese financial institutions in the 1980s. Mr. Dattel is now an independent scholar who lectures widely and has served as an adviser to the New York Historical Society and the B. B. King Museum. He lives in New York City. For more information, see www.genedattel.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 169mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9781566637473
• ISBN-10: 1566637473
• Artikelnr.: 26558810