The Merchants' Capital

Scott P. (University of Memphis) Marler

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521897648
ISBN-10
0521897645
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-04-29
Pages
327
Dimensions
161x237x27
Weight
642