Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization : from the antebellum era to the computer age / edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delfino, Susanna, 1949-

Gillespie, Michele.

Series:

New currents in the history of Southern economy and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--Technological innovations--Southern States.

Industries.

Industrialization--Southern States.

Industrialization.

Industries--Technological innovations.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]

Summary:

"Essays consider the role of innovative technologies in industries across the South, including steamboats and shipping in the lower Mississippi valley; textile manufacturing in Georgia, Arkansas, and South Carolina; coal mining in Virginia; sugar planting and processing in Louisiana; the electrification of the Tennessee valley; and telemedicine in contemporary Arizona"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: Industry in the Old South: Polemics and Politics / Gavin Wright vii

Steamboats and Southern Economic Development / Robert H. Gudmestad 18

Pits of Frustration: The Failed Transplant of British Mining Methods in Antebellum Virginia / Sean Patrick Adams 41

Slavery and Technology in Louisiana's Sugar Bowl / Richard Follett 68

Building Networks of Knowledge: Henry Merrell and Textile Manufacturing in the Antebellum South / Michele Gillespie 97

Entrepreneurial Networks and the Textile Industry: Technology, Innovation, and Labor in the American Southeast, 1890-1925 / Pamela C. Edwards 125

Technocracy on the March? The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Uses of Technology / Stephen Wallace Taylor 163

Telemedicine: An Important Component in Arizona's Economic and Social Development / Yoneyuki Sugita 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826217950

0826217958

OCLC:

213765907