Förlagets beskrivning
Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born
capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business
enterprise like any other - indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its
time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture
between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States Yet
the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its
path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing
manufacturing belt of the North. In their essays collected in The South, the
Nation, and the World, David Carlton and Peter Coclanis effectively argue that
the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot simply be
explained away as resulting from a distinctive "premodern" business climate,
because there was actually very little variation between one region's business
climate and another's during the Antebellum period. Instead, it was the collapse of the slave regime in the 1860s that left the
South in dire need of economic restructuring, and by Reconstruction the
emergent American economy had foreclosed options formerly available to southern
enterprise. Forced to play catch-up, southerners have had at best mixed success
in the continuing struggle to create an economic life affording stable growth
and broad opportunity to all the region's people - and Carlton and Coclanis
offer a fascinating illumination of the twists and turns in that economic
history. In this collection of essays, the authors argue that the chronic economic
difficulties of the American South cannot be explained away as resulting from a
distinctive "premodern" business climate, since there was little variation
between regional business climates during the Antebellum period.
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