Modernizing a Slave Economy : The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation.

By: Majewski, JohnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Civil War AmericaPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807882375Subject(s): Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Southern States | Confederate States of America -- Economic conditions | Confederate States of America -- Economic policy | Confederate States of America -- Politics and government | Economic development -- Confederate States of America -- History | Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernizing a Slave Economy : The Economic Vision of the Confederate NationDDC classification: 330.975/03 LOC classification: HC105.65 -- .M25 2009ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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