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The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
Will be published approx. on 11. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
540 pages
978-0-393-31219-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and fall of the "peculiar institution," as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down a seemingly impregnable system.
Reviews / Votes
"Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual, and political history. . . . Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises. . . . [A] splendid book." -- Eugene D. Genovese - Los Angeles Times Book ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
909 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31219-5 (9780393312195)
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Person
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.