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UNINA9910783663803321 |
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Titolo |
Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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New currents in the history of Southern economy and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DelfinoSusanna <1949-> |
GillespieMichele |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Industrialization - Southern States |
Industrialization |
Comparative economics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Include bibliographica referens and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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