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Author Eelman, Bruce W., 1967-

Title Entrepreneurs in the southern upcountry : commercial culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880 / Bruce W. Eelman
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages) : maps
Contents List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "The Rising Generation": Commerce and Class in Antebellum Spartanburg; Two. "We Must Manufacture": Textiles and Transportation in the Antebellum Era; Three. "An Educated and Intelligent People Cannot Be Enslaved": The Struggle for Common School Reform; Four. "Moral and Industrial Reform May Be United in One System": Modernizing Law and Morality; Five. "We Have No Union Now": Secession and War; Six. "To Pay Our Debts and Build Up Our Fallen Fortunes": Economic Recovery and Commercial Expansion in Postwar Spartanburg
Seven. "A Great Commercial and Railroad Centre": Textiles, Transportation, and Trade in the Postwar EraEight. "Educate Your Sons, They Will Build Reservoirs and Railroads": Race, Class, and Postwar Public Education; Nine. "The Timely and Judicious Administration of the Laws": Law, Vigilantism, and the Business Community of Postwar Spartanburg; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index
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Subject Industries -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg -- History -- 19th century
Industrialization -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg -- History -- 19th century
Entrepreneurship -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Entrepreneurship
Industrialization
Industries
South Carolina -- Spartanburg
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820336589
0820336580