Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization : from the antebellum era to the computer age /

"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 electr...

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Other Authors: Delfino, Susanna, 1949-, Gillespie, Michele
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Series:New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
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505 0 |a 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.. 
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