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Sloss Furnaces and the rise of the Birmingham district : an industrial epic /
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution,"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
Ã1994.
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| Colección: | History of American science and technology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution," slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 645 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-610) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817385613 0817385614 0817356681 9780817356682 0817307087 9780817307080 |