Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie
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Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 240 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 330.975 |
| Soggetto topico: | Industrialization - Southern States |
| Industrialization | |
| Comparative economics | |
| Altri autori: |
DelfinoSusanna <1949->
GillespieMichele
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| 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.: | 9910783663803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.