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Title Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South [electronic resource] / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.

Imprint Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.

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Description x, 240 p. : ill.
Series New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
Bibliography Include bibliographica referens and index.
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.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Industrialization -- Southern States.
Industrialization.
Comparative economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
Gillespie, Michele.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0826215831 (alk. paper)

 
    
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