{"product_id":"the-merchants-capital-new-orleans-and-the-political-economy-of-the-nineteenth-century-south-paperback-9781107557543","title":"The Merchants' Capital; New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107557543","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Merchants' Capital\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eScott P. Marler (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107557543, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 October 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e334 pages, 7 b\/w illus.  14 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Prodigiously researched and elegantly argued, The Merchants' Capital deserves a wide readership.' Richard Follett, The Journal of Southern History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of wealth accumulation - merchant capital - that was based on the extraction of profit from exchange processes. However, like the slave-based mode of production with which they were allied, New Orleans merchants faced growing pressures during the antebellum era. Their complacent failure to improve the port's infrastructure or invest in manufacturing left them vulnerable to competition from the fast-developing industrial economy of the North, weaknesses that were fatally exposed during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Changes to regional and national economic structures after the Union victory prevented New Orleans from recovering its commercial dominance, and the former first-rank American city quickly devolved into a notorious site of political corruption and endemic poverty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: merchants of the cotton South in the age of capital\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Antebellum Era: 1. Merchants and bankers in the 'great emporium of the South'\u003cbr\u003e 2. New Orleans merchants and the failure of industrial development\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rural merchants on the cotton frontier of antebellum Louisiana\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Civil War: 4. From secession to the fall of New Orleans, 1860–2\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bankers and merchants in occupied Louisiana - the Butler regime\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reconstruction: 6. New Orleans merchants and the political economy of reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e 7. The economic decline of postbellum New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e 8. Rural merchants and the reconstruction of Louisiana agriculture\u003cbr\u003e 9. Epilogue: merchant capital and economic development in the postbellum South.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913320554776,"sku":"9781107557543","price":27.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107557543i_7458e83d-2963-4576-84ea-3cd4a8d01ae2.jpg?v=1696766204","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-merchants-capital-new-orleans-and-the-political-economy-of-the-nineteenth-century-south-paperback-9781107557543","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}