Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865-1914Competition 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. |
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Contents
The people | 14 |
The people at work 18651880 | 37 |
The people at work 18801914 | 62 |
The fruits of their labors | 95 |
Housing | 108 |
Improvements in the level of living | 117 |
Vicious circles? | 128 |
Black participation in the merchant class | 142 |
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| Title | Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865-1914 Volume 163 of Hoover Institution publication Volume 163 of Hoover press publications |
| Author | Robert Higgs |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0521088402, 9780521088404 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Europe / Great Britain / General History / United States / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies |
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