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Gavin Wright

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Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.

Gavin Wright Books

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work book cover

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

Orville Vernon Burton
Bike Maintenance For Dummies book cover

Bike Maintenance For Dummies

Gavin Wright
Slavery and American Economic Development book cover

Slavery and American Economic Development

Gavin Wright
Cycling For Dummies book cover

Cycling For Dummies

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