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...Scott P. Marler Abstract Although the importance of country stores to the economy of the post–Civil War South has long been widely acknowledged, by far the most careful and influential analysis of rural merchants is Ransom and Sutch's One Kind of Freedom (1977), which used mostly region-wide data...

... , 7 ; The Wheat Grower , July 1, 1926 , 3 ; The Wheat Grower , June 1, 1927 , 7 ; The Wheat Grower , Aug. 1, 1928 , 1 , 7 ; The Wheat Grower , Aug. 15, 1928 , 6. See also E. E. Lycke to F. W. Ransom , Nov. 1926 ; E. E. Lycke to W. A. MacLeod , Feb. 2, 1927 ; F. W...

... Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, and their successors. Most significantly, The Rebuke of History connects the agrarians to a broader range of conservative thinking in twentieth-century America. The greatest contribution of The Rebuke of History is its attention to change. It gives almost as much attention...

... short? age in credit. Economic historians Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch have argued that racism, poor transportation, and other factors led to a singularly uncompetitive market for capital in the rural South, leading to exorbitant in? terest rates and allowing local merchants to demand...

... and pure capitalism in favor of limited, subsistence agriculture. At the forefront of the original agrarians, John Crowe Ransom, Alien Tate, and Donald Davidson continued to publish articles in the early 1930s "pro? moting the Southern agricultural economy as a practical political and Book Reviews / 623...

... was outlawed throughout the Spanish empire, Spain permitted the retention of Native Americans captured in just wars or ransomed from the clutches of barbarous Indian nations that trafficked in human merchandise. Expanded under subsequent Mexican rule, captive Indian slavery continued to flourish after US...

... ; Winders and Ransom, Global Meat . 7. Bosso, Framing the Farm Bill . 8. Sheingate, “Policy Regime Decay.” 9. Environmental Protection Agency, “Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks.” 10. Hayek et al., “Carbon Opportunity Cost of Animal-Sourced Food...

... of the Depression by rejecting monopolies and pure capitalism in favor of limited, subsistence agriculture. At the forefront of the original agrarians, John Crowe Ransom, Alien Tate, and Donald Davidson continued to publish articles in the early 1930s "pro? moting the Southern agricultural economy as a practical...

... into the federal home demonstration program were few in number. Joel Schor reports that in 1915 there was only one black woman who was listed as a federal home agent. This absence of black women in home demonstration work was typical across the South, including in South Carolina.11 Ransom W. Westberry, one...

...,” 5b-6a. 40. Advertisement for Ransomes, Sims, and Head, Gezhi huibian 2, no. 11 (Dec. 1877): gaobai.13a . On the display of the engine at Vienna, see Robert H. Thurston, ed., Reports of the Commissioners of the United States to the International Exhibition Held at Vienna, 1873 , 4 vols...

... Census (June 1,1870) (1872; repr., New York: Arno Press, 1976), 692 United States Census Office , Compendium of the Tenth Census (June 1,1880) (Washington, DC: GPO, 1883 ), 685 6 Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences...

.... For the antebellum period, descriptions of wealth/income distribution have been offered by, as a sampling, Gavin Wright, The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978); Roger L. Ransom, Conflict and Compromise: The Political...

... and then making those deliveries while attending the local markets the next week. He soon assumed direct control over placing orders and deliveries, which occasionally led to some difficulties. On one trip out of town, Smith asked his cousin, Ransom, who owned a different farm in Saltfleet, to look after his...

... Rights, 1982 ), 3 2 Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977 ) Manning Marable in " The Land Question in Historical Perspective: The Economics of Poverty in the Blackbelt...

... and diplomatic agents. These vendors specialized in adapting their marketing to Argentine buyers. In Figure 1, for example, the farm machinery company Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies of England printed their materials in Spanish, advertised machinery specifically oriented to the Argentine farmer, and even warned...

... to severe erosion. NOTES 1.We would like to thank Jarad Beckman for excellent research assistance. For com ments on earlier drafts, we thank Jay Carlander, Dennis Halcoussis, JeffHummel, Lisa Jacobson, Naomi Lamoreaux, Jean-Laurent Rosthenthal, Roger Ransom, Ken Sokoloff, Gavin Wright, and the participants...

..., at least from my perspective. The society used to be a home for elite economists studying agricultural history. Stanley Engerman, Robert Gallman, William Parker, Gavin Wright, Jeremy Atack, Richard Sutch, Roger Ransom, Peter Lindert, Robert Fogel, and numerous others all saw our journal as an outlet...

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