When the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the
men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were …

Page 1 SERIES MODERNIZING A SLAVE ECONOMY the Economic Vision of the Confederate
Nation W. & ARR D WEBAP 3 JOHN MAJEWSKI Page 2 SERIES MODERNIZING A SLAVE …

At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the
economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and …

In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-
winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy, raucous streets of that …

Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most
symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin …

In the decades preceding the Civil War, the South struggled against widespread negative
characterizations of its economy and society as it worked to match the North's infrastructure …

Both sides in the US Civil War financed military spending by issuing new fiat currencies. The
Union 'greenback'underwent moderate inflation (by wartime standards), but the Confederate …

ON JUNE 9, 1860, SEVENTY-NINE MEN IN NEw ORLEANS FORMALLY left the service of
the Internal Improvement Department of the state of Louisiana. Among their ranks were two …

In Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry, Bruce W. Eelman follows the evolution of an
entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation …