Marc Egnal

American Slavery: The Newer Exegesis

Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974. Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974. 286 and 267 pp. Eugene D. Genovese. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon, 1974.823 pp. Within a single year, two major works on American Negro slavery have appeared, each suggesting a broad reinterpretation of our views on bondage in the Old South. Both have been widely acclaimed; reviews of these books in publications such as Time and Atlantic Monthly indicate an interest extending far beyond the usual academic circles. While the two works share certain common concerns, their methodologies, areas of concentration, and conclusions are strikingly different. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman base their findings, in large part, on various bodies of quantitative data. They divide Time on the Cross into two volumes, one addressed to the general reade...

Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith (eds.) (2012), viii +358, University of Chicago Press, Chicago,

A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution

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A PLANTING AND TRADING SOCIETY

30.00 These essays about nineteenth-century US capitalism reflect research con...

Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “An economic interpretation of the American Revolution”

Preface 2010 Preface to the First EditionIntroductionPART ONE THE FACTIONS EMERGE, 1690-1762 1. Massachusetts to 1741: Three Parties Were Formed 2. Massachusetts, 1741-1762: Coalition Politics 3. New York: Traders and Warriors 4. Pennsylvania: Quaker Party Ascendancy 5. Virginia: Rise of the Northern Neckers 6. South Carolina: Factions Times TwoPART TWO REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS, 1763-1770 7. The Depression of the 1760s 8. Massachusetts: Patriot Alliance 9. New York: Reluctant Revolutionaries 10. Pennsylvania: Challenging the Quaker Party 11. Virginia: Conflict and Cooperation 12. South Carolina: Triumphant PatriotsPART THREE THE QUIET YEARS, 1771-1773 13. The Quiet YearsPART FOUR THE EXPANSIONISTS PREVAIL, 1774-1776 14. Northern Colonies: Antagonists High and Low 15. Southern Colonies: Maintaining Control 16. Beyond IndependenceAppendix. Members of the Factions Index

The Economic Development of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1720 to 1775

Allan Kulikoff. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1986. xviii + 449 pp. David W. Galenson. Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 230 pp. An emphasis on quantitative data and an interest in New World slavery link these two books. However, the two works are of strikingly different quality. Allan Kulikoff s study of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Chesapeake is an important contribution to early American social history, while David W. Galen- sons analysis of the Royal African Companys commerce in slaves is a narrowly- conceived work that adds little to our knowledge. Kulikoffs sprawling Tobacco arid Slaves discusses the transformation of Maryland and Virginia society between about 1650 and the 1780s, and examines the impact of these changes on both whit...