Barbara Hahn: 4 books
The Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption,...
Making Tobacco Bright
Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant’s many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation.
Hahn focuses her study on the most popular...
Plantation Kingdom
The American South and Its Global Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities...
Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals
Getting Started with RACF
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2007
Leverage Your Security Expertise in IBM® System z™ Mainframe Environments For over 40 years, the IBM mainframe has been the backbone of the world’s largest enterprises. If you’re coming to the IBM System z mainframe platform from UNIX ® , Linux ® , or Windows ® , you need practical...