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The Merchants' Capital

- New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South

About The Merchants' Capital

New Orleans, the nineteenth-century South's only true metropolis, originally derived its prosperity as the chief export point for slave-produced commodities, most notably cotton. This book focuses on the city's merchants and how their conservative investment mentalities contributed to New Orleans' unusually rapid economic downfall during and after the Civil War.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780521897648
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 327
  • Published:
  • April 28, 2013
  • Dimensions:
  • 158x236x22 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 600 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: January 11, 2025
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
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Description of The Merchants' Capital

New Orleans, the nineteenth-century South's only true metropolis, originally derived its prosperity as the chief export point for slave-produced commodities, most notably cotton. This book focuses on the city's merchants and how their conservative investment mentalities contributed to New Orleans' unusually rapid economic downfall during and after the Civil War.

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