How DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER were the North and South before the Civil War?
Recent work by historians of antebellum America throws interesting new light on this old …

This study proposes that the American manufacturing belt emerged during the antebellum
years as a replicated set of regional industrial systems. A broad-based set of demands …

This chapter explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery
made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here “cliometrics” is defined as a …

Department of Economics University of Georgia he purpose of this article is threefold. First, it
alerts the profession to the availability of new machine-T readable census samples on US …

MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, ROBERT S. STAROBIN'S PATHBREAKING Industrial
Slavery in the Old South contended that slaveholding industrialists were able" to create a …

This working paper explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American
slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here “cliometrics” is …

A reconsideration of regional economic development during the antebellum period is
underway. Emphasis thus far has tended to center on economic aggregates, on one region …

Many reasons have been suggested for the South's failure during the nineteenth century to
develop an industrial sector comparable in scale and scope to that in the northeastern …

On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known.
This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this gap in our knowledge by providing …

The examination and analysis of the economic position of the antebellum South is a diEcult
undertaking because of the many issues which get mixed together. l Several different …