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- Title
King cotton: Monarch or pretender? The state of the market for raw cotton on the eve of the American civil war.
- Authors
Surdam, David G.
- Abstract
Examines the market for raw cotton in the early 1860s, focusing on the demand for American-grown raw cotton. Development of a model for analyzing the world market for raw cotton; Examination of the model's effect upon the world demand for American-grown raw cotton; Identification of consumption, stocks and prices for raw cotton during the period 1860-62; Effect of the civil war in the United States on the rate of growth and elasticity of demand for cotton.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COTTON prices; HISTORY
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1998, Vol 51, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00085