Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885

by Laurence Shore

Studying the changing strategies used by the nineteenth-century southern leaders to justify their direction of the South's economy and politics, Shore shows how leaders before, during, and after the Civil War attempted to set standards of success in southern society and to clarify the relations between those standards and national prosperity. Shore offers a new perspective on southern leaders' worldview and helps clarify the enduring question of what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807817023
• ISBN13: 9780807817025
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.