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"Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and fall of the ""peculiar institution,"" as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down a seemingly impregnable system."

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Author:   Robert William Fogel
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.824kg
ISBN:  

9780393312195

ISBN 10:   0393312194
Pages:   540
Publication Date:   11 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual, and political history. . . . Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises. . . . [A] splendid book. --Eugene D. Genovese

Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual, and political history... Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises... [A] splendid book. -- Eugene D. Genovese

Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual, and political history. . . . Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises. . . . [A] splendid book. -- Eugene D. Genovese

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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.

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