The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South
(Part of the Cambridge Studies on the American South Series)
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As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107557542
ISBN13:9781107557543
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:334 Pages
Weight:1.08 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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