Bruce E Baker, Barbara Hahn

The Cotton Kings

Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-Of-The-Century New York and New Orleans

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cotton Kings is a colorful account of the men who fought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New York and New Orleans. Dishonest brokers used bad information to raise and lower prices, make or break fortunes, regardless of supply and demand.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780190211653
• ISBN-10: 0190211652
• Artikelnr.: 47863365

Autorenporträt

Bruce E. Baker teaches at Newcastle University in England and is co-editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History. He is the author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947, After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South, and The South at Work: Observations from 1904. Barbara Hahn is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University and associate editor of Technology and Culture. She is the author of Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937. She is spending 2014-2016 as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Ch 1 New Orleans and the Future of the Cotton Trade
Ch 2 The Value of Information
Ch 3 Building a Bear Trap
Ch 4 Cornering Cotton
Ch 5 Of Weevils and Wool Hats
Ch 6 Of Scandals, Sunshine, and Manipulation
Ch 7 Revenge of the Bears
Ch 8 The Perpetual Squeeze
Ch 9 The Cotton Futures Act of 1914
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index