Stanley Engerman: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future

By Fouad Sabry

Who is Stanley Engerman

American economist and economic historian Stanley Lewis Engerman was a prominent figure in the field. He was well-known for his quantitative historical work, which he did in collaboration with Robert Fogel, an economist who won the Nobel Prize. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery was his first major work, it was published in 1974, and it was written in collaboration with Robert Fogel. Readers were challenged to engage in critical thinking about the economics of slavery through the reading of this seminal work, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize in American history. In addition, Engerman has produced, co-authored, or edited sixteen book-length studies, and he has published more than one hundred research articles.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights about the following:

Chapter 1: Stanley Engerman

Chapter 2: Economic history

Chapter 3: Slavery in the United States

Chapter 4: Cliometrics

Chapter 5: Robert Fogel

Chapter 6: Antebellum South

Chapter 7: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Chapter 8: Slave trade in the United States

Chapter 9: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Chapter 10: Herbert Gutman

Chapter 11: J. Steven Wilkins

Chapter 12: Journal of Political Economy

Chapter 13: Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom

Chapter 14: Kenneth Sokoloff

Chapter 15: The Slave Community

Chapter 16: Alfred H. Conrad

Chapter 17: Slave breeding in the United States

Chapter 18: The Negress

Chapter 19: Robert L. Paquette

Chapter 20: Great Liberal Party of Venezuela

Chapter 21: Capitalism and Slavery

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Stanley Engerman.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Feb 7, 2024

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