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Competition and Coercion Robert Higgs

Competition and Coercion By Robert Higgs

Competition and Coercion by Robert Higgs


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Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation. Its central theme is that economic competition and racial coercion jointly determined the material condition of the blacks.

Competition and Coercion Summary

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 by Robert Higgs

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation. Its central theme is that economic competition and racial coercion jointly determined the material condition of the blacks. The book identifies a number of competitive processes that played important roles in protecting blacks from the racial coercion to which they were peculiarly vulnerable. It also documents the substantial economic gains realized by the black population between 1865 and 1914. Professor Higgs's account is iconoclastic. It seeks to reorganize the present conceptualization of the period and to redirect future study of black economic history in the post-Emancipation period. It raises new questions and suggests new answers to old questions, asserting that some of the old questions are misleadingly framed or not worth pursuing at all.

Table of Contents

1. Approaching the facts; 2. The people; 3. The people at work, 1865-1880; 4. The people at work, 1880-1914; 5. The fruits of their labours; 6. Overview and interpretation.

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NLS9780521088404
9780521088404
0521088402
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914 by Robert Higgs
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2008-10-30
220
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