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Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization : from the antebellum era to the computer age / edited by Susanna Delfino and 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):
- Industries--Technological innovations--Southern States.
- Industries.
- Industrialization--Southern States.
- Industrialization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- ""Introduction""; ""1. Steamboats and Southern Economic Development""; ""2. Pits of Frustration""; ""3. Slavery and Technology in Louisiana's Sugar Bowl""; ""4. Building Networks of Knowledge""; ""5. Entrepreneurial Networks and the Textile Industry""; ""6. Technocracy on the March?""; ""7. Telemedicine"".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6631-2
- OCLC:
- 503441463
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