Gavin Wright (born 1943) is an

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and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American economic history at

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. He received his

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from

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and his Ph.D. with distinction from

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. He has taught at that institution, the

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, the

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, the

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, and

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. Wright has published nine books and dozens of scholarly articles. Most of his research has focused on the economics of the 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 American 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