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Stanley Engerman - Illuminating the Past Shaping the Future - cover

Stanley Engerman - Illuminating the Past Shaping the Future

Fouad Sabry

Maison d'édition: One Billion Knowledgeable

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Synopsis

Who is Stanley Engerman
 
American economist and economic historian Stanley Lewis Engerman was a prominent figure in the field. He was well-known for his quantitative historical work, which he did in collaboration with Robert Fogel, an economist who won the Nobel Prize. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery was his first major work, it was published in 1974, and it was written in collaboration with Robert Fogel. Readers were challenged to engage in critical thinking about the economics of slavery through the reading of this seminal work, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American history. In addition, Engerman has produced, co-authored, or edited sixteen book-length studies, and he has published more than one hundred research articles.
 
How you will benefit
 
(I) Insights about the following:
 
Chapter 1: Stanley Engerman
 
Chapter 2: Economic history
 
Chapter 3: Slavery in the United States
 
Chapter 4: Cliometrics
 
Chapter 5: Robert Fogel
 
Chapter 6: Antebellum South
 
Chapter 7: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
 
Chapter 8: Slave trade in the United States
 
Chapter 9: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
 
Chapter 10: Herbert Gutman
 
Chapter 11: J. Steven Wilkins
 
Chapter 12: Journal of Political Economy
 
Chapter 13: Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom
 
Chapter 14: Kenneth Sokoloff
 
Chapter 15: The Slave Community
 
Chapter 16: Alfred H. Conrad
 
Chapter 17: Slave breeding in the United States
 
Chapter 18: The Negress
 
Chapter 19: Robert L. Paquette
 
Chapter 20: Great Liberal Party of Venezuela
 
Chapter 21: Capitalism and Slavery
 
Who this book is for
 
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Stanley Engerman.
Disponible depuis: 07/02/2024.
Longueur d'impression: 202 pages.

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