Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.

Other author Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
Other author Gillespie, Michele.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005.
Descriptionx, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesNew currents in the history of Southern economy and society
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. ^A605890
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteInclude bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005008095
ISBN0826215831 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HC107.A13 G535 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold