Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South /

Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations - - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society . - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introdcution -- 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.

"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


English.

0826264727 (electronic bk.) 9780826264725 (electronic bk.) 0826215831 (alk. paper) 9780826215833 (alk. paper)




Industrialization--Southern States.
Industrialization.
Comparative economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economics--Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Economic History.
Comparative economics.
Industrialization.
Industrialisation--États-Unis (Sud)
Industrialisation.
Économie politique comparée.
industrialization.


Southern States.


Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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