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020			_a9781479843527 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aHD9075 _b.C688 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aCohen, Michael R. _q(Michael Ralph), _d1978- _e1
245	1	0	_aCotton capitalists : _bAmerican Jewish entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction era / _cMichael R. Cohen.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 259 pages .).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aThe Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
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520	8		_aIn the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important industry-cotton-positioning themselves at the forefront of expansion during the Reconstruction Era. Jewish success in the cotton industry was transformative for both Jewish communities and their development, and for the broader economic restructuring of the South. Cotton Capitalists analyzes this niche economy and reveals its origins. Michael R. Cohen argues that Jewish merchants' status as a minority fueled their success by fostering ethnic networks of trust. Trust in the nineteenth century was the cornerstone of economic transactions, and this trust was largely fostered by ethnicity. Much as money flowed along ethnic lines between Anglo-American banks, Jewish merchants in the Gulf South used their own ethnic ties with other Jewish-owned firms in New York, as well as Jewish investors across the globe, to capitalize their businesses. They relied on these family connections to direct Northern credit and goods to the war-torn South, avoiding the constraints of the anti-Jewish prejudices which had previously denied them access to credit, allowing them to survive economic downturns. These American Jewish merchants reveal that ethnicity matters in the development of global capitalism. Ethnic minorities are and have frequently been at the forefront of entrepreneurship, finding innovative ways to expand narrow sectors of the economy. While this was certainly the case for Jews, it has also been true for other immigrant groups more broadly.
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650		0	_aCotton trade _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aEntrepreneurship _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aJews _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1497325&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell