The Political Economy of Slavery
Title | The Political Economy of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0819575275 |
This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region’s social order and cultural identity. In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese argues that slavery gave the South a distinct class structure, political community, economy, ideology, and a set of psychological patterns. As a result, the South grew away from the rest of the nation and became increasingly unstable during the nineteenth century. The difficulties it faced—economic, political, moral, and ideological—constituted a fundamental antagonism between modern and premodern worlds. Southern slavery was the foundation on which rose a powerful social class which, in turn, dominated Southern society. While they constituted only a tiny portion of the white population, they were powerful enough to largely succeed at building a new—or rather rebuilding an old—civilization.
The Political Economy of Slavery
Title | The Political Economy of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
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Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Slavery |
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The Political Economy of Slavery
Title | The Political Economy of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Dominick Genovese |
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Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1989 |
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ISBN | 9780819552013 |
A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.
Political Economy of Slavery
Title | Political Economy of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
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Release | 2002 |
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Conflict and Compromise
Title | Conflict and Compromise PDF eBook |
Author | Roger L. Ransom |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1989-09-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521311670 |
In this book Professor Roger Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860, and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. Ransom argues that the system of capitalist slavery in the South not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; it also played a crucial role in the outcome of that war by crippling the southern war effort at the same time that emancipation became a unifying issue for the North. Ransom also carefully examines the impact that four years of war and the emancipation of slaves had both on the defeated South and the victorious North. -- From publisher's description.
Deep Roots
Title | Deep Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Avidit Acharya |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0691203725 |
"Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery--compared to areas that were not--are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress. Highlighting the connection between historical institutions and contemporary political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had political and economic incentives to encourage the development of anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from parents to children and via communities, through a process called behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that can still be felt today. A groundbreaking look at the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the present, Deep Roots demonstrates how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that created those beliefs have been eradicated."--Jacket.
The Political Economy of Slavery
Title | The Political Economy of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Dominick Genovese |
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Release | 1971 |
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