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The Confederate Naval Buildup: Could More Have Been Accomplished?

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Naval War College Review
Publication Date: 2001
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The Union navy’s control of the American waters was a decisive element in the outcome of the Civil War. The Federal government’s naval superiority allowed it to project power along thousands of miles of coastline and rivers, subsist large armies in Virginia, and slowly strangle the southern economy by stymieing imports of European and northern manufactures and foodstuffs, Read more »

The Vulnerability of the Union War Effort to Naval Attacks at the Beginning of the United States Civil War

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Northern Mariner
Publication Date: 2000
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Traders or Traitors: Northern Cotton Trading during the Civil War

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Business and Economic History
Publication Date: 1999
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King Cotton: Monarch or Pretender?
The State of the Market for Raw Cotton on the Eve of the American Civil War

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Naval War College Review
Publication Date: 1998
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The Union Navy’s Blockade Reconsidered

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Naval War College Review
Publication Date: 1998

Discusses the Union Navy’s blockade during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Analyses of the blockade; Examination of the data commonly used in assessing the blockade; Description of the antebellum Southern economy; Effect of the blockade upon the Confederate war effort. Read more »

The Antebellum Texas Cattle Trade Across the Gulf of Mexico

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: The Southwestern Historical Society
Publication Date: 1997
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Presents information on the antebellum Texas cattle trade across the Gulf of Mexico after the Civil War. Information on the trading practices of Texas in New Orleans; How the cattle were shipped from Texas; Details on the Galveston trade in the mid-1800s. Read more »

Union Military Superiority and New Orleans’ Value to the Confederacy

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Agricultural History
Publication Date: 1997
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Cotton’s Potential as Economic Weapon:
An Examination of the Antebellum and Wartime Market for Cotton Textiles

Cotton’s Potential as Economic Weapon:
An Examination of the Antebellum and Wartime Market for Cotton Textiles

Author: David G. Surdam
Publication: Agricultural History
Publication Date: 1994

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BOOKS

2001-Nothern-Naval-Supeiority-and-the-Economics-of-the-Civil-War - copy
2008-The-Post-War-Yankees
2010-The-Ball-Game-Biz
2011-Wins,-Looses,-&-Empty-Seats
2012-The-Rise-of-the-National-Basketball-Association
2013-Run-to-Glory-and-Profits
2015-The-Big-Leagues-Go-to-Washington
2015-Century-of-the-Leisured-Masses
The Age of Ruth and Landis: The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties
Business Ethics from the 19th Century to Today: An Economist's View
Business Ethics from Antiquity to the 19th Century: An Economist's View
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