Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War by Gavin Wright

Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War

Gavin Wright

336 pages • first pub 1986 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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In this provocative and intricate analysis of the postbellum southern economy, Gavin Wright finds in the South's peculiar labor market the answer to the perennial question of why the region remained backward for so long. After the Civil War, Wrigh...

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