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Industrialization and Southern society, 1877-1984 / James C. Cobb

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Cobb, James C. (James Charles), 1947-
Published
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
Copyright Date
©1984
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Paperback edition.
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1 online resource (198 pages).
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Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Shaping of Southern Growth; 2. The Twentieth-Century South and the Campaign for New Industry; 3. The Sunbelt South; 4. Life and Labor in the Industrializing South; 5. Industrial Development and Reform in the Post-World War II South; 6. Natural and Environmental Resources and Industrial Development; 7. Why the New South Never Became the North: A Summary; Bibliographic Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
Summary
In the 1880s, Southern boosters saw the growth of industry as the only means of escaping the poverty that engulfed the postbellum South. In the long run, however, as James C. Cobb demonstrates in this illuminating book, industrial development left much of the South's poverty unrelieved and often reinforced rather than undermined its conservative social and political philosophy. The exploitation of the South's resources, largely by interests from outside the region, was not only perpetuated but in many ways strengthened as industrialization proceeded. The 20th Century brought increasing competi.
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ISBN
9780813148663 (e-book)
0813148669 (e-book)
9780813103044
9780813191096
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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