TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majewski,John
TI  - Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation
T2  - Civil War America
SN  - 9780807882375
AV  - HC105.65 -- .M25 2009eb 
U1  - 330.975/03 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States
KW  - Confederate States of America -- Economic conditions
KW  - Confederate States of America -- Economic policy
KW  - Confederate States of America -- Politics and government
KW  - Economic development -- Confederate States of America -- History
KW  - Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagining a Confederate Economy -- One: Shifting Cultivation, Slavery, and Economic Development -- Two: Agricultural Reform and State Activism -- Three: Explaining Lieber's Paradox: Railroads, State Building, and Slavery -- Four: Redefining Free Trade to Modernize the South -- Five: Economic Nationalism and the Growth of the Confederate State -- Statistical Appendix: The Origins and Impact of Shifting Cultivation -- Notes -- Secondary Literature and Primary Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy. The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and state-led modernization. They blamed the South's lack of development on Union policies of discriminatory taxes on southern commerce and unfair subsidies for northern industry. Majewski argues that Confederates' opposition to a strong central government was politically tied to their struggle against northern legislative dominance. Once the Confederacy was formed, those who had advocated states' rights in the national legislature in order to defend against northern political dominance quickly came to support centralized power and a strong executive for war making and nation building
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