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  • Plantation Kingdom

    The American South and Its Global Commodities

    by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Rice

    Global Networks and New Histories

    Edited by Francesca Bray, Peter A. Coclanis, Edda L. Fields-Black, Dagmar Schäfer ...
    Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in the rise of ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Challenging Capitalism

    Paths Taken, Roads Ahead

    Edited by Peter A. Coclanis, Arne L. Kalleberg ...
    Commentators today generally agree that we are at an inflection point in the history of capitalism. This economic system in its long-regnant neoliberal form—privileging free international trade, promoting the transnational movement of capital and labor, and advocating a limited role for the state—has faltered, if not failed, and needs to be superseded by a new political-economic architecture that ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Water and Power

    Environmental Governance and Strategies for Sustainability in the Lower Mekong Basin

    Edited by Mart A. Stewart, Peter A. Coclanis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered.The book is divided into three sections devoted in turn to historical perspectives on the Lower ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Way Forward

    Building a Globally Competitive South

    Edited by Daniel P. Gitterman, Peter A. Coclanis ...
    In the last half century, North Carolina and the South have experienced rapid economic growth. Much of the best analysis of this progress came from two North Carolina-based research organizations: the Southern Growth Policies Board and MDC (originally a project of the North Carolina Fund). Their 1986 reports are two of the best assessments of the achievements and limitations of the so-called ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields

    Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862-1871

    Edited by Margaret Belser Hollis, Allen H. Stokes ...
    A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom from one of South Carolina's founding familiesThe Civil War and Reconstruction eras decimated the rice-planting enterprise of the South, and no family experienced the effects of this economic upheaval quite as dramatically as the Heywards of South Carolina, a family synonymous with the wealth of the old rice ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta

    Edited by Mart A. Stewart, Peter A. Coclanis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Mekong Delta of Vietnam is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. The Mekong River fans out over an area of about 40,000 sq kilometers and over the course of many millennia has produced a region of fertile alluvial soils and constant flows of energy. Today about a fourth of the Delta is under rice cultivation, making this area one of the premier rice granaries in the world ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel

    Edited by Peter A. Coclanis ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is a collection of essays focusing on the expansion, elaboration, and increasing integration of the economy of the Atlantic basin—comprising parts of Europe, West Africa, and the Americas—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In thirteen essays, the contributors examine the complex and variegated processes by which ... Read more

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

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  • A Slave in the White House

    Paul Jennings and the Madisons

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