Gavin Wright
Encyclopedia
Gavin Wright is an economic historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History at Stanford University
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Most of Wright's research has focused on the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
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Most of Wright's research has focused on the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
Works
- The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. ISBN 0393090388.
- Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1986. ISBN 0807120987.
- Slavery and American Economic Development. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. ISBN 0807131830.