
A Deplorable Scarcity
The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 1. January 1981
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-8078-1447-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-1447-5 (9780807814475)
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Persons
Fred Bateman is professor of economics at the University of Georgia.|Thomas Weiss is professor of economics at the University of Kansas.