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"Essays analyzing the economic evolution of the American South from the late colonial period to World War I and beyond. Examines the South in respect to long-held assumptions about industrialization and productivity and draws comparisons to the larger Atlantic and world economy"--Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie

Southern industrialization: myths and realities / Stanley L. Engerman

Charleston and the British industrial revolution, 1750-1790 / Emma Hart

Alternatives to dependence: the lower South's antebellum pursuit of sectional development through global interdependence / Brian Schoen

Industrialization and economic development in the nineteenth-century U.S. South: some interregional and intercontinental comparative perspectives / Shearer Davis Bowman

The idea of Southern economic backwardness: a comparative view of the United States and Italy / Susanna Delfino

Markets and manufacturing: industry and agriculture in the antebellum South and Midwest / John Majewski and Viken Tchakerian

Southern textiles in global context / David L. Carlton and Peter Coclanis

Beginnings of the global economy: capital mobility and the 1890s U.S. textile industry / Beth English

Black workers, white immigrants, and the postemancipation problem of labor: the new South in transnational perspective / Erin Elizabeth Clune

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