Edward E Baptist: 3 books
American Capitalism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
From Cornell University Professors Louis Hyman and Edward E. Baptist, a collection of the most relevant readings on the history of capitalism in America, created to accompany their EdX course American Capitalism: A Reader.
To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story...
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
Creating an Old South
Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South.
Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older...