"COTTON AS A WORLD POWER; A STUDY IN THE ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY" BY JAMES A. B. SCHERER An expansion of Dr. Scherer's lectures at Oxford and Cambridge Universities on "Economic Causes in the American Civil War," which Dr. Holland Rose said should compel a re-writing of American history. This book not only treats of the fascinating rôle of "King Cotton" in the present War, but makes out a powerful case for the dominance of economic motives in almost all wars, and closes with a lucid philosophy of peace. OPINIONS: "The romance of commerce and its part in determining history was never more forcibly presented."-Boston Globe. "The most interesting, complete history of cotton ever written."-Wall Street Journal. "No economist nor business man can afford to miss the illumination of this remarkable book, while Dr. Scherer's light touch and easy style will carry even the casual reader deep into a volume which typifies that new history which digs deep beneath the apparent fact to find the underlying cause of things."-Broadus Mitchell in Baltimore Sun. "Opens with the fascination of romance and closes with the philosophy of statesmanship. One seldom finds anywhere in one work such a comprehensive range of historic interest as this volume affords."-Literary Digest. AT WAR BY JAMES A. B. SCHERER FOR ONE YEAR CHIEF FIELD AGENT OF THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL "THE JAPANESE CRISIS," ETC. GDH NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY |