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1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Industries -- Technological innovations -- Southern States.
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Industries -- Technological innovations. |
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Southern States. |
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Industries. |
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Industrialization -- Southern States.
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Industrialization. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
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Gillespie, Michele.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008012922 |
ISBN |
9780826266316 (electronic book) |
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0826266312 (electronic book) |
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9780826217950 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0826217958 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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