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Book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor  by a Cotton Manufacturer  i e  Edward Atkinson

Download or read book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor by a Cotton Manufacturer i e Edward Atkinson written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor

Download or read book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor written by Edward Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor  by a Cotton Manufacturer  i e  Edward Atkinson

Download or read book Cheap Cotton by Free Labor by a Cotton Manufacturer i e Edward Atkinson written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire of Cotton

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  • Author : Sven Beckert
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 0375713964
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Empire of Cotton written by Sven Beckert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

Book The Cotton Plant

Download or read book The Cotton Plant written by Alfred Charles True and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Industrial Resources  Etc   of the Southern and Western States

Download or read book The Industrial Resources Etc of the Southern and Western States written by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Continental Monthly

Download or read book The Continental Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sophisms of Free Trade and Popular Political Economy Examined

Download or read book Sophisms of Free Trade and Popular Political Economy Examined written by John Barnard Byles and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Bodies  White Gold

Download or read book Black Bodies White Gold written by Anna Arabindan-Kesson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. In doing so, Arabindan-Kesson models an art historical approach that makes the histories of the Black diaspora central to nineteenth-century cultural production. She traces the emergence of a speculative vision that informs perceptions of Blackness in which artistic renderings of cotton—as both commodity and material—became inexorably tied to the monetary value of Black bodies. From the production and representation of “negro cloth”—the textile worn by enslaved plantation workers—to depictions of Black sharecroppers in photographs and paintings, Arabindan-Kesson demonstrates that visuality was the mechanism through which Blackness and cotton became equated as resources for extraction. In addition to interrogating the work of nineteenth-century artists, she engages with contemporary artists such as Hank Willis Thomas, Lubaina Himid, and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, who contend with the commercial and imperial processes shaping constructions of Blackness and meanings of labor.

Book Constraint of Race

Download or read book Constraint of Race written by Linda Faye Williams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brahmin Capitalism

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  • Author : Noam Maggor
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-20
  • ISBN : 0674973887
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Brahmin Capitalism written by Noam Maggor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil War, leading the way to the nationally integrated corporate capitalism of the twentieth century. Maggor’s provocative history of the Gilded Age explores how the moneyed elite in Boston—the quintessential East Coast establishment—leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing in New England and the abolition of slavery, these gentleman bankers traveled far and wide in search of new business opportunities and found them in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West. Their investments spawned new political and social conflict, in both the urbanizing East and the expanding West. In contests that had lasting implications for wealth, government, and inequality, financial power collided with more democratic visions of economic progress. Rather than being driven inexorably by technologies like the railroad and telegraph, the new capitalist geography was a grand and highly contentious undertaking, Maggor shows, one that proved pivotal for the rise of the United States as the world’s leading industrial nation.

Book The Mighty Experiment

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  • Author : Seymour Drescher
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2004-10-14
  • ISBN : 0190291966
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Mighty Experiment written by Seymour Drescher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and on the other as the most expensive per capita expenditure for colonial reform in modern history. In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. The Mighty Experiment explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground. Those at the inception of the social sciences, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus, helped to develop these tools to create an argument that touched on issues of demography, racism, and political economy. By the time British emancipation became legislation, it was being treated as a massive social experiment, whose designs, many thought, had the potential to change the world. This study outlines the relationship of economic growth to moral issues in regard to slavery, and will appeal to scholars of British history, nineteenth century imperial history, the history of slavery, and those interested in the history of human rights. The Mighty Experiment was the winner of First Prize, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Book A House Divided

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  • Author : Mason I. Lowance Jr.
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 0691188866
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book A House Divided written by Mason I. Lowance Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents, A House Divided is a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating it historically, culturally, and thematically as well as linking it to other writings. The documents represent the full scope of the varied debates over slavery. They include examples of race theory, Bible-based arguments for and against slavery, constitutional analyses, writings by former slaves and women's rights activists, economic defenses and critiques of slavery, and writings on slavery by such major writers as William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Together they give readers a real sense of the complexity and heat of the vexed conversation that increasingly dominated American discourse as the country moved from early nationhood into its greatest trial.

Book The Pricing of Progress

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  • Author : Eli Cook
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-25
  • ISBN : 0674982541
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book The Pricing of Progress written by Eli Cook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.

Book Freedom  Volume 2  Series 1  The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor  The Upper South

Download or read book Freedom Volume 2 Series 1 The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor The Upper South written by Ira Berlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.

Book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography

Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: