TY - BOOK AU - Delfino,Susanna AU - Gillespie,Michele ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South T2 - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society AV - HC107.A13 G535 2005 U1 - 330.975 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Industrialization KW - Southern States KW - Comparative economics KW - Electronic books N1 - Include bibliographica referens and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3570856 ER -