Global perspectives on industrial transformation in the American South  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Susanna Delfino ;  Michele Gillespie. 
 - Columbia :  University of Missouri Press,  c2005. 
 - x, 240 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society .
 - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. .
<br/><br/>Include bibliographica referens and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 /  Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie --  Stanley L. Engerman --  Emma Hart --  Brian Schoen --  Shearer Davis Bowman --  Susanna Delfino --  John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian --  David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis --  Beth English --  Erin Elizabeth Clune. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrialization--Southern States.<br/>Industrialization.<br/>Comparative economics.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC107.A13  / G535 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.975