Time on the Cross
The Economics of American Slavery
Will be published approx. on 15. March 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-393-31218-8 (ISBN)
Description
In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
Reviews / Votes
"With one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science." -- New York Times Book ReviewMore details
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
461 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31218-8 (9780393312188)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Robert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Stanley L. Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. His controversial writings on the economics of slavery with economist Robert Fogel were some of the first modern treatments of the subject.