Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South
Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South [electronic resource] /
edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- x, 240 p. : ill.
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society .
- New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. .
Include bibliographica referens and index.
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 / Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie -- Stanley L. Engerman -- Emma Hart -- Brian Schoen -- Shearer Davis Bowman -- Susanna Delfino -- John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian -- David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis -- Beth English -- Erin Elizabeth Clune.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Industrialization--Southern States.
Industrialization.
Comparative economics.
Electronic books.
HC107.A13 / G535 2005
330.975
Include bibliographica referens and index.
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 / Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie -- Stanley L. Engerman -- Emma Hart -- Brian Schoen -- Shearer Davis Bowman -- Susanna Delfino -- John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian -- David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis -- Beth English -- Erin Elizabeth Clune.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Industrialization--Southern States.
Industrialization.
Comparative economics.
Electronic books.
HC107.A13 / G535 2005
330.975