Competition and Coercion
Blacks in the American economy 1865-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19929162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Higgs (0000-0003-2909-6555, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Publication date | 1977-02-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914, James D Reid, 1977 |
| Venue | Competition and Coercion (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511896712 |
| OpenAlex | W4256639871 |
| Open Library | OL4880819M |
| ISBN | 9780511896712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 166 |
Competition 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
Aesthetics · Coercion (linguistics) · Competition (biology) · Conceptualization · Emancipation · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Demography · Ecology · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African americans · Afro-Americans · Blacks · Blacks, economic conditions · Economic conditions · race relations · united states
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Federalism and the Demise of Prescriptive Racism in the United States
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs in 272 SMSAs
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Fertility of Southern Black Farmers in 1900
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The 'Black Metropolis' in the American Urban System of the Early Twentieth Century
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Sharecropping and the plantation economy in the United States South
Mortality differentials within large American cities in 1890
Birth in the U.S. Plantation South and Racial Differences in all-cause mortality in later life
Black and White Farm Operators in the South During the Great Depression
Retail and wholesale enterprise among ethnic groups in core and peripheral urban centers
Planter combinations and black labour in the American South, 1865–1880
The genesis of free labour in the American Civil War
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Racial Segregation and Insurance Enterprise Among Black Americans in Northern Cities
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New deal or no deal in the Cotton South
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Growth and welfare in the American South of the nineteenth century
Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race
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Coerced and free labor
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The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South
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| Unique citing works | 125 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,39 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2026 (50) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 95 |