Add to ORKGAfter the American Civil War, and the collapse of the market in slave-produced cotton in the South, cotton merchants in New Orleans faced challenges in re-establishing the city as a central port for Southern cotton. As commodities exchanges emerged as centralized spaces for business in the 1870s, a new class of experts emerged, upon whose reports traders bought and sold newly developed securities derivatives. Henry G. Hester (1846- 1934), Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, was an integral player in the development of the methods that governed sophisticated commodities trading around the world. His career at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange tells the story of the arrival of these methods and subsequent downfall of Euro-American cen...
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.This dissertation examines the end ...
The concept of cooperative endeavor is not a new line of reasoning; the first history of cooperation...
After the American Civil War, and the collapse of the market in slave-produced cotton in the South, ...
As the locus of cotton production shifted toward the newer southwestern states over the first half o...
As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth ...
From the cotton gin until World War II, the pace of economic expansion in the American South was pri...
Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post - Civil War South has long been...
Randolph writes to an unidentified cottton manufacturer that he has been informed that exhorbitant ...
The manufacturing impulse in the South appeared as early as 1790 when primitive cotton factories wer...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityIhe disastrous effects of the War of 1812 upon New England commerce...
The British market has until now received little of the credit due it as the chief support of the co...
Unidentified author writes of few transactions on the cotton market. The average price of cotton ...
A New Look at Race and Economics Gene Dattel grew up in the cotton area of the Mississippi Delta...
Henry Watterson (1840–1921), editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through World W...
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.This dissertation examines the end ...
The concept of cooperative endeavor is not a new line of reasoning; the first history of cooperation...
After the American Civil War, and the collapse of the market in slave-produced cotton in the South, ...
As the locus of cotton production shifted toward the newer southwestern states over the first half o...
As cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth ...
From the cotton gin until World War II, the pace of economic expansion in the American South was pri...
Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post - Civil War South has long been...
Randolph writes to an unidentified cottton manufacturer that he has been informed that exhorbitant ...
The manufacturing impulse in the South appeared as early as 1790 when primitive cotton factories wer...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityIhe disastrous effects of the War of 1812 upon New England commerce...
The British market has until now received little of the credit due it as the chief support of the co...
Unidentified author writes of few transactions on the cotton market. The average price of cotton ...
A New Look at Race and Economics Gene Dattel grew up in the cotton area of the Mississippi Delta...
Henry Watterson (1840–1921), editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through World W...
There are Civil War historians who argue that slavery in the United States South was a dying institu...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of History, 2010.This dissertation examines the end ...
The concept of cooperative endeavor is not a new line of reasoning; the first history of cooperation...