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

By Robert Higgs

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1977
ISBN
0521211204, 9780521211208
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3400179 bytes)
Series
Hoover Institution Press Publication
Pages
218\218
Topic
History
Time added
2014-05-17 09:18:52

Description

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.

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