Transition to an industrial South Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870
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Louisiana State University Press
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Commencing southern industrialization -- The people of industrialization -- The culture of industrialization -- The network of industrialization -- Epilogue to antebellum industrialization Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens. By 1835, local entrepreneurs had built three cotton factories in Athens, started a bank, a |
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| ISBN: | 0807145084 0807145092 0807145106 0807145114 9780807145081 9780807145098 9780807145104 9780807145111 |