Book contents
- The Merchants’ Capital
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Merchants’ Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Merchants of the Cotton South in the Age of Capital
- Part I The Antebellum Era
- 1 Merchants and Bankers in the “Great Emporium of the South”
- 2 New Orleans Merchants and the Failure of Economic Development
- 3 Rural Merchants on the Cotton Frontier of Antebellum Louisiana
- Part II Secession and War
- Part III Reconstruction
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Merchants and Bankers in the “Great Emporium of the South”
from Part I - The Antebellum Era
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- The Merchants’ Capital
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Merchants’ Capital
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Merchants of the Cotton South in the Age of Capital
- Part I The Antebellum Era
- 1 Merchants and Bankers in the “Great Emporium of the South”
- 2 New Orleans Merchants and the Failure of Economic Development
- 3 Rural Merchants on the Cotton Frontier of Antebellum Louisiana
- Part II Secession and War
- Part III Reconstruction
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Merchants' CapitalNew Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South, pp. 15 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013