Gavin Wright (born 1943) is an

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Professor of

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economic history at

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. He received his B.A from

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and his Ph.D. with distinction from

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. Wright has published nine books and dozens of scholarly articles. Most of his research has focused on the economics of U.S. Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Selected publications

*''Reckoning with Slavery''. Oxford, England: Oxford U. Press, 1976 (co-ed). *''The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century''. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. . *''Technique, Spirit and Form in the Making of Modern Economies''. Bingley, England: JAI Press, 1984 (c-ed). *''Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War''. New York: Basic Books, 1986. . *''The Mosaic of Economic Growth''. Stanford U. Press, 1996 (co-ed). . *''Slavery and American Economic Development''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. . *''The Japanese Economy in Retrospect''. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2010 (co-ed). *''Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. .

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1943 births Living people Historians of the American Civil War Economic historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Stanford University Department of Economics faculty University of Michigan faculty 21st-century American economists American male non-fiction writers Presidents of the Economic History Association {{US-historian-stub