UID:
almahu_9948325976602882
Format:
x, 240 p. :
,
ill.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Series Statement:
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
Content:
"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.
Note:
Introduction /
,
Southern industrialization: myths and realities /
,
Charleston and the British industrial revolution, 1750-1790 /
,
Alternatives to dependence: the lower South's antebellum pursuit of sectional development through global interdependence /
,
Industrialization and economic development in the nineteenth-century U.S. South: some interregional and intercontinental comparative perspectives /
,
The idea of Southern economic backwardness: a comparative view of the United States and Italy /
,
Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest /
,
Southern textiles in global context /
,
Beginnings of the global economy: capital mobility and the 1890s U.S. textile industry /
,
Black workers, white immigrants, and the postemancipation problem of labor: the new South in transnational perspective /
Language:
English
Keywords:
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