Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization : from the antebellum era to the computer age / edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Essays consider the role of innovative technologies in industries across the South, including steamboats and shipping in the lower Mississippi valley; textile manufacturing in Georgia, Arkansas, and South Carolina; coal mining in Virginia; sugar planting and processing in Louisiana; the electrification of the Tennessee valley; and telemedicine in contemporary Arizona"--Provided by publisher

Industry in the Old South: polemics and politics / Gavin Wright -- Introduction / Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie -- Steamboats and Southern economic development / Robert H. Gudmestad -- Pits of frustration: the failed transplant of British mining methods in antebellum Virginia / Sean Patrick Adams -- Slavery and technology in Louisiana's sugar bowl / Richard Follett -- Building networks of knowledge: Henry Merrell and textile manufacturing in the antebellum South / Michelle Gillespie -- Entrepreneurial networks and the textile industry: technology, innovation, and labor in the American Southeast, 1890-1925 / Pamela C. Edwards -- Technocracy on the march? the Tennessee Valley Authority and the uses of technology / Stephen Wallace Taylor -- Telemedicine: an important component in Arizona's economic and social development / Yoneyuki Sugita.

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