About the Author

Peter A. Coclanis is the Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and Associate Provost for International Affairs at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of many works in American and international economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920. He is also the coauthor of The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development. Coclanis lives in Chapel Hill.