'Robert William Fogel's exceedingly careful testing of all possible sources and his
pioneering methodological approach have allowed him both to increase our knowledge of …

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women,
this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and …

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 …

Este libro se ha ido confeccionando desde que en 1991 uno de nosotros enviara un informe
sobre globalización e historia a la National Science Foundation. Los frutos de ese premio …

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 …

Labor costs historically have been decisive in determining the location of cotton textile
production. Despite an apparent advantage in wage rates, however, the southern industry …

All history is comparative. The judgments historians make are derived from some explicit or
implicit standard of comparison. Thus, when historians describe the antebellum South in the …

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 …

Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of
economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family …