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Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century
Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers, thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy.
272 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 21, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807172193 |
| Publishers | Louisiana State University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 23 mm · 536 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Baker, Bruce E. |
| Editor | Forret, Jeff |