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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393312186
ISBN-139780393312188
eBay Product ID (ePID)155595
Product Key Features
Book TitleTime on the Cross : the Economics of American Slavery
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General
Publication Year1995
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreHistory
AuthorRobert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
ReviewsWith one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science.
Dewey Decimal331.1/1734/0973
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisIn an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate., First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).