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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--Southern States.
- Industrialization.
- Comparative economics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 240 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Include bibliographica referens and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6472-7
- OCLC:
- 64638577
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