James Fred Bateman, Jr. (1937 – January 10, 2012) was a noted economic historian. He served as the ''Nicholas A. Beadles'' Professor in the

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at the

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. Bateman's main areas of research were US 19th century agricultural and industrial economic history. He served from 1982–83 as president of the

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and in 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the

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Selected publications

* Atack, J. and Bateman, F. (1987). To their own soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. Ames: Iowa State University Press.Bogue, A. G.,(December 01, 1987). Review of To Their Own Soil. Agriculture in the Antebellum North. by Atack, J., & Bateman, F., ''Journal of Economic History'', 47, 4, 1050-1051. * Bateman, F., and Weiss, T. J. (1981). A deplorable scarcity: The failure of industrialization in the slave economy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

References and notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bateman, Fred 1937 births 2012 deaths Indiana University faculty University of Georgia faculty Economic historians