Scott P. Marler

The Merchants' Capital

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107557543
• ISBN-10: 1107557542
• Artikelnr.: 43043057

Autorenporträt

Scott P. Marler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses in US, Southern, and Atlantic World history. A former editor at the Journal of Southern History, his work was a finalist for the Allen Nevins Dissertation Prize of the Economic History Association, and he has also won awards from the St George Tucker Society and the Louisiana Historical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: merchants of the cotton South in the age of capital
Part I. The Antebellum Era: 1. Merchants and bankers in the 'great emporium of the South'
2. New Orleans merchants and the failure of industrial development
3. Rural merchants on the cotton frontier of antebellum Louisiana
Part II. The Civil War: 4. From secession to the fall of New Orleans, 1860-2
5. Bankers and merchants in occupied Louisiana - the Butler regime
Part III. Reconstruction: 6. New Orleans merchants and the political economy of reconstruction
7. The economic decline of postbellum New Orleans
8. Rural merchants and the reconstruction of Louisiana agriculture
9. Epilogue: merchant capital and economic development in the postbellum South.