Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization
Subtitle: from the antebellum era to the computer age
By: edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie.
Contributors: Delfino, Susanna, 1949-; Gillespie, Michele.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780826217950
Subjects: Industries -- Technological innovations -- Southern States; Industrialization -- Southern States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.