Planting a Capitalist South : Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860.
Title:
Planting a Capitalist South : Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860.
Author:
Downey, Tom.
ISBN:
9780807136607
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Agrarian Landscape -- Chapter 2: Publici Juris: Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in the Post-Revolutionary Era -- Chapter 3: "An Inducement to Capitalists": The Rise of the Merchant Class -- Chapter 4: "The Great Avenue of Intercourse and Common Channel of Commerce": The Railroad -- Chapter 5: "A Change in our Industrial Pursuits": Vaucluse and Graniteville -- Chapter 6: The Elevation of Commerce: The Merchant's Ascent and the Divergence of Town and Country -- Chapter 7: From Intrastate to Interstate: The Railroad and the Demise of Publici Juris -- Chapter 8: "A Domineering Influence": Graniteville and the Triumph of Men and Capital -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Planting a Capitalist South effectively challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated political economy of the Old South. By analyzing the interplay of planters, merchants, and manufacturers, the author characterizes the South as a sphere of contending types of capitalists: agrarians with land and slaves versus commercial and industrial owners of banks, railroads, stores, and factories. A revisionary study, Planting a Capitalist South offers clear evidence of a burgeoning transition to capitalist society in the Old South.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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