02924nam a22003854a 4500 ebr10097294 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 050323s2005 moua sb s001 0 eng 2005008095 0826215831 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)70745895 n-usu-- HC107.A13 G535 2005eb 330.975 22 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. New currents in the history of Southern economy and society Include bibliographica referens and index. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Industrialization Southern States. Industrialization. Comparative economics. Electronic books. local Delfino, Susanna, 1949- Gillespie, Michele. ebrary, Inc. New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10097294 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 193766 193766