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"Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in nineteenth-century America. Slaveholders developed credit and creditworthiness by using enslaved people as collateral, and this allowed them to undertake an endless array of projects. But Murphy further shows that this credit system grew and changed as banks sought new ways to realize their own profits and power. She demonstrates not merely how slavery was financed by banks but how banks were financed by slavery. By extension, everything banks enabled, not least the physical expansion of the United States itself, was also then literally indebted to that noxious institution"--
"Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in nineteenth-century America. Slaveholders developed credit and creditworthiness by using enslaved people as collateral, and this allowed them to undertake an endless array of projects. But Murphy further shows that this credit system grew and changed as banks sought new ways to realize their own profits and power. She demonstrates not merely how slavery was financed by banks but how banks were financed by slavery. By extension, everything banks enabled, not least the physical expansion of the United States itself, was also then literally indebted to that noxious institution"--
Über den Autor
Sharon Ann Murphy is professor of history at Providence College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
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Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780226825137 |
ISBN-10: | 0226825132 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Murphy, Sharon Ann |
Hersteller: | The University of Chicago Press |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Abbildungen: | 17 halftones, 1 line drawings, 8 tables |
Maße: | 149 x 229 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Sharon Ann Murphy |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.04.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,6 kg |
Über den Autor
Sharon Ann Murphy is professor of history at Providence College.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
---|---|
Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780226825137 |
ISBN-10: | 0226825132 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Murphy, Sharon Ann |
Hersteller: | The University of Chicago Press |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Abbildungen: | 17 halftones, 1 line drawings, 8 tables |
Maße: | 149 x 229 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Sharon Ann Murphy |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.04.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,6 kg |
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