Friday, January 3, 9:30–11:30 a.m.

Morning Session of AHA Affiliated Societies

Economic History Association

New Directions in the Economic History
of American Agriculture

Palmer House, LaSalle Room 1

Chair: Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Papers: Hog Round Marketing, Mongrelized Seed, and Government Policy:
Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920–60
Alan L. Olmstead, University of California at Davis
Paul W. Rhode, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

(Re)Constructing Business Institutions for a New South:
Merchants and Agriculture in Post-Emancipation Louisiana
Scott P. Marler, Rice University

Comment: David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University
Deborah K. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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