Business and Economics and the Civil War

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How did the South's reliance on international trade with Europe affect its foreign policy regarding official recognition of the Confederacy? (See King Cotton Diplomacy by F.L. Owsley).
How did the market for agriculture affect transportation technology?
Consider how commerce and the demand for manufactured products influenced urbanization and increased specialization in the labor force.
Examine the history of paper money and banking law before, during, and after the Civil War.
How did economic and social status affect military service? (See Substitutions)
How does war in general affect the economies of both adversaries? Consider later wars such as WWII and the subsequent boost to the American economy.
Consider the concept of men as property in the institution of slavery.
When did the federal income tax become law?
How did the federal blockade of the Southern coast affect the Southern economy on a governmental and individual scale? (See Massey's Ersatz of the Confederacy)
Immigrants arrived in droves to work in Northern factories in the mid 1800s. How did this affect the Union war effort in the 1860s?

Professional Associations

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Society for Human Resource Management

Small Business Administration Online

Small Business Resource Center

U.S. Business Advisor

Bibliography/References

Author	Title	Publisher	Year
Bacon, Benjamin W.	Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War	Presidio Press	1997
Ball, Douglas B.	Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat
Boritt, Gabor S.	Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream	University of Illinois Press	1994
Criswell, Grover C.	Criswell's Currency Series Vol. 1: Confederate and Southern State Currency
Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman.	Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery	W.W. Norton	1995
Goodheart, Lawrence B.	Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse
Grant, James	Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken	Noonday Press	1994
Hammond, Bray	Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War	Princeton University Press	1957
Johnson, David R.	Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America	Smithsonian Institution Press	1995
Jones, Steven	The Right Hand of Command: The Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the Civil War	Stackpole Books	2000
Lester, Richard I.	Confederate finance and purchasing in Great Britain
Mandle, Jay R.	Not Slave, Not Free: The African Economic Experience Since the Civil War	Duke University Press	1992
McGraw, Thomas K.	Jay Gould and the Coming of Railroad Consolidation	Harvard Business Review	1995
McGraw, Thomas K.	Organized Labor and the Worker	Harvard Business Review	1995
Noyes, Alexander Dana	Thirty years of American finance; a short financial history of the Government and people of the United States since the Civil War, 1865-1896
O'Brien, Patrick K.	Economic Effects of the American Civil War (Studies in Economic and Social History)
Richardson, Heather Cox	The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War	Harvard Historical Studies	1997
Schwab, John Christopher	Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: A Financial and Industrial History of the South During the Civil War
Taylor, Robert A.	Rebel Storehouse: Florida in the Confederate Economy	University of Alabama Press	1995
Wheeler, Tom	Leadership Lessons from the Civil War: Winning Strategies for Today's Managers	Doubleday & Company, Inc.	1999

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