Southern Scoundrels - Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse-and duplicitous-forms. Southern Scoundrels explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the region: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy. Eschewing conventional economic theory, this volume features narrative storytelling as engaging and seductive as the cast of shifty characters under examination. Contributors cover the chronological sweep of the nineteenth-century South, from the antebellum era through the tumultuous and chaotic Civil War years, and into Reconstruction and beyond. The geographic scope is equally broad, with essays encompassing the Chesapeake, South Carolina, the Lower Mississippi Valley, Texas, Missouri, and Appalachia. These essays offer a series of social histories on the nineteenth-century southern economy and the changes wrought by capitalist transformation. Tracing that story through the kinds of oily individuals who made it happen, Southern Scoundrels provides fascinating insights into the region's hucksters and its history.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2021
Editors:	Jeff Forret • Bruce E. Baker
Contributors:	Jimmy L. Bryan Jr • Alexandra J Finley • T R C Hutton • John Lindbeck • Maria R. Montalvo • Elaine Frantz Parsons • Rodney Steward • Jeff Strickland
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-7219-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8071-7219-7
Barcode:	9780807172193

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