Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery; Evidence and Methods [two volumes, complete]
by Fogel, Robert William & Stanley L. Engerman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316287008
- ISBN 13
- 9780316287005
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Controversial Bancroft Prize-winning study asserting that the system of slave agriculture in the American South before the Civil War was economically viable, and that enslaved persons were, on the whole, not treated much worse than free laborers of the day. Fogel went on to share a Nobel Prize medal in economics. Hardcovers in jacket, as pictured; volume 1 is a stated third printing, volume 2 the first. Light wear to books, just a bit of foxing to volume 1; jackets show some rubbing and minor edgewear with short tears, light creaing, tiny chips. Text clean, no names or marks; xviii, 286; xi, blank, 267 pages; index, notes, bibliography, equations & many charts. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Set.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0862
- Title
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery; Evidence and Methods [two volumes, complete]
- Author
- Fogel, Robert William & Stanley L. Engerman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316287008
- ISBN 13
- 9780316287005
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston/Toronto
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Ecomonics, Slavery, Sociology, Historiography, Cliometrics, Americana, Antebellum South, Racism
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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