Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization: from the antebellum era to the computer age
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia University of Missouri Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
"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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 215 pages)
ISBN:0826266312
9780826266316

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