Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South / edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.

• Superior document: New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Delfino, Susanna, 1949-; Gillespie, Michele.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Bliain Foilsithe: 2005
• Teanga: English
• Sraith: New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
• Cur Síos Fisiciúil: x, 240 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Introduction /; Southern industrialization: myths and realities /; Charleston and the British industrial revolution, 1750-1790 /; Alternatives to dependence: the lower South's antebellum pursuit of sectional development through global interdependence /; Industrialization and economic development in the nineteenth-century U.S. South: some interregional and intercontinental comparative perspectives /; The idea of Southern economic backwardness: a comparative view of the United States and Italy /; Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest /; Southern textiles in global context /; Beginnings of the global economy: capital mobility and the 1890s U.S. textile industry /; Black workers, white immigrants, and the postemancipation problem of labor: the new South in transnational perspective /
• Achoimre: "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.
• Bibleagrafaíocht: Include bibliographica referens and index.
• ISBN: 0826215831 (alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Susanna Delfino ; Michele Gillespie.

"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...