Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.
"Essays analyzing the economic evolution of the American South from the late colonial period to World War I and beyond. Examines the South in respect to long-held assumptions about industrialization and productivity and draws comparisons to the larger Atlantic and world economy"--Provided...
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Superior document: | New currents in the history of Southern economy and society |
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Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
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Physical Description: | x, 240 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie
- Southern industrialization: myths and realities / Stanley L. Engerman
- Charleston and the British industrial revolution, 1750-1790 / Emma Hart
- Alternatives to dependence: the lower South's antebellum pursuit of sectional development through global interdependence / Brian Schoen
- Industrialization and economic development in the nineteenth-century U.S. South: some interregional and intercontinental comparative perspectives / Shearer Davis Bowman
- The idea of Southern economic backwardness: a comparative view of the United States and Italy / Susanna Delfino
- Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest / John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian
- Southern textiles in global context / David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis
- Beginnings of the global economy: capital mobility and the 1890s U.S. textile industry / Beth English
- Black workers, white immigrants, and the postemancipation problem of labor: the new South in transnational perspective / Erin Elizabeth Clune.