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

Contributor(s): Delfino, Susanna, 1949- | Gillespie, Michele | ebrary, Inc.
Series: New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008Description: xiii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Industries -- Technological innovations -- Southern States | Industrialization -- Southern StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.0975 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Summary: "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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.