Cotton Capitalists

✍ Scribed by Cohen, Michael R

• Book ID: 109595617
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781479879700

✦ Synopsis

A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector

In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important industry—cotton—positioning themselves at the forefront of expansion during the Reconstruction Era. Jewish success in the cotton industry was transformative for both Jewish communities and their development, and for the broader economic restructuring of the South. Cotton Capitalists analyzes this niche economy and reveals its origins. Michael R. Cohen argues that Jewish merchants' status as a minority fueled their success by fostering ethnic networks of trust. Trust in the nineteenth century was the cornerstone of economic transactions, and this trust was largely fostered by ethnicity. Much as money flowed along ethnic lines between Anglo-American banks, Jewish merchants in the Gulf South used their own ethnic ties with other...
Number of Words in Auth: 3
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Michael R. Cohen
Original Source : Mirc New Files 03 07
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Cohen, Michael R.
Title Length : 018
Title Parm D : Cotton Capitalists
Title Parm F : Cotton Capitalists
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
Record ID : 1365
Uncomma Author : Michael R. Cohen
Title Parm A : Cotton Capitalists