Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel
In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
Time on the Cross
Time on the Cross
Summary
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).
Time on the Cross Summary
Time on the Cross Reviews
With one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science. -- New York Times Book Review
About Robert William Fogel
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. 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.
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GOR001894119
9780393312188
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel
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Paperback
WW Norton & Co
19950315
336
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