| Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery Revised Edition Contributor(s): Fogel, Robert William (Author), Engerman, Stanley L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393312186 ISBN-13: 9780393312188 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Business & Economics | Labor |
| Dewey: 331.11 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fogel, Robert William: - Robert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago.Engerman, Stanley L.: - Stanley L. Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. His controversial writings on the economics of slavery with economist Robert Fogel were some of the first modern treatments of the subject. |