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Entrepreneurs in the southern upcountry : commercial culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880 / Bruce W. Eelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eelman, Bruce W., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entrepreneurship--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Industrialization--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.
- Industrialization.
- Industries--South Carolina--Spartanburg--History--19th century.
- Industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial culture in a nineteenth-century southern community outside the plantation belt. Counter to the view that the Civil War and Reconstruction alone brought social and economic revolution, Eelman finds that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen advocated a comprehensive vision for modernizing their region.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. "The Rising Generation": Commerce and Class in Antebellum Spartanburg
- Two. "We Must Manufacture": Textiles and Transportation in the Antebellum Era
- Three. "An Educated and Intelligent People Cannot Be Enslaved": The Struggle for Common School Reform
- Four. "Moral and Industrial Reform May Be United in One System": Modernizing Law and Morality
- Five. "We Have No Union Now": Secession and War
- Six. "To Pay Our Debts and Build Up Our Fallen Fortunes": Economic Recovery and Commercial Expansion in Postwar Spartanburg
- Seven. "A Great Commercial and Railroad Centre": Textiles, Transportation, and Trade in the Postwar Era
- Eight. "Educate Your Sons, They Will Build Reservoirs and Railroads": Race, Class, and Postwar Public Education
- Nine. "The Timely and Judicious Administration of the Laws": Law, Vigilantism, and the Business Community of Postwar Spartanburg
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781282553323
- 1282553321
- 9780820336589
- 0820336580
- OCLC:
- 593297229
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