Competition and coercion : Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914
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Competition and coercion : Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914
（Hoover Institution publication, P163）
Cambridge University Press, 1977
Available at 30 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [173]-203
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
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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