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Titolo: | Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | x, 240 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 330.975 |
Soggetto topico: | Industrialization - Southern States |
Industrialization | |
Comparative economics | |
Altri autori: | DelfinoSusanna <1949-> GillespieMichele |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Include bibliographica referens and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6472-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816598903321 |
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