| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) |
| Series |
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society |
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New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
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| Contents |
Industry in the Old South: polemics and politics / Gavin Wright -- Introduction / Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie -- Steamboats and Southern economic development / Robert H. Gudmestad -- Pits of frustration: the failed transplant of British mining methods in antebellum Virginia / Sean Patrick Adams -- Slavery and technology in Louisiana's sugar bowl / Richard Follett -- Building networks of knowledge: Henry Merrell and textile manufacturing in the antebellum South / Michelle Gillespie -- Entrepreneurial networks and the textile industry: technology, innovation, and labor in the American Southeast, 1890-1925 / Pamela C. Edwards -- Technocracy on the march? the Tennessee Valley Authority and the uses of technology / Stephen Wallace Taylor -- Telemedicine: an important component in Arizona's economic and social development / Yoneyuki Sugita |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Industries -- Technological innovations -- Southern States
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Industrialization -- Southern States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Industrialization
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Industries -- Technological innovations
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Industrialisierung
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Technischer Fortschritt
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Southern States
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USA -- Südstaaten
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
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Gillespie, Michele.
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| ISBN |
9780826266316 |
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0826266312 |
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