A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (review)

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
Greg Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War

Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Wright ◽  
Howard Kunreuther
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War ◽  
World Cotton ◽  
The South ◽  
Satisfactory Explanation ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Per Capita

Why Did “Uncle Remus” exhort the post-bellum South to reduce its cotton-growing in favor of corn? His complaint was prompted in the immediate sense by the low cotton prices of the early 1890's, but such comments reflected a continuing discontent over the region's abandonment of self-sufficiency in foods after the Civil War. The ratio of cotton output to com was probably at an antebellum peak in 1860, but this ratio had been easily exceeded by 1880, as Table 1 indicates. In the leading cotton states, per capita corn production and the per capita stock of hogs were only about half of what they had been twenty years earlier. Coinciding as it did with a major era of stagnation in world cotton demand, this shift into cotton is of great importance for the subsequent economic development of the South. Despite its size and significance, the shift lacks a satisfactory explanation in the historical literature.

Deborah Winslow and Michael Woost, eds. Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 496-497
Author(s):  
Danial Bass
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military

The ten authors in this volume address critical concerns about the economics of civil war in Sri Lanka, including how prolonged war affects economic development, why people volunteer to join the military during wartime, and who is benefiting economically from this violence. The collected essays provide analytical and methodological insight for scholars studying conflict and war throughout the world, and its authors question the economics of the current war on terrorism.

V. Economy

1982 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 28-34
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Economic Expansion ◽  
Pax Romana

The accession of Augustus inaugurated an era of relatively stable government, the basic condition for economic recovery and expansion. The new regime was dedicated to the cause of civil peace and the pacification of Rome’s enemies. The success of this policy furthered internal economic development and, insofar as it expanded the territory under Roman control, extended.the economic horizons of the empire. The settlement of substantial numbers of Italian soldier colonists in northern Italy or abroad, moreover, promoted the recovery of central and southern Italy, now relieved of intense pressure on the land, and furthered the development of more thinly populated areas of the empire. It is unnecessary to hold that Augustus had a clear and coherent policy of stimulating economic expansion. But he did create the conditions under which economic life could flourish. After his reign the empire suffered no major calamities except for the civil war of 68-69 and the ensuing revolt of Civilis, and it faced only a limited threat from across the frontiers. The Pax Romana was by and large uninterrupted.

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