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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Government-wide Index to Federal Research & Development Reports
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Combined Farming-industrial Employment in the Cotton Textile Subregion of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina
Author: Willard Wilson TroxellPublisher:
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Category : Cotton manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Research Monograph
Author: United States. Works Progress AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Unemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Transition to an Industrial South
Author: Michael J. GagnonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807145084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens. By 1835, local entrepreneurs had built three cotton factories in Athens, started a bank, and created the Georgia Railroad. Although known best as a college town, Athens became an industrial center for Georgia in the antebellum period and maintained its stature as a factory hub even after competing cities supplanted it in the late nineteenth century. Georgia, too, remained the foremost industrial state in the South until the 1890s. Gagnon reveals the political nature of procuring manufacturing technology and building cotton mills in the South, and demonstrates the generational maturing of industrial laboring, managerial, and business classes well before the advent of the New South era. He also shows how a southern industrial society grew out of a culture of social and educational reform, economic improvements, and business interests in banking and railroading. Using Athens as a case study, Gagnon suggests that the connected networks of family, business, and financial relations provided a framework for southern industry to profit during the Civil War and served as a principal guide to prosperity in the immediate postbellum years.
Research Monograph
Author: Part-time Farming in the Southeast
Author: Rutillus Harrison AllenPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910
Author: Mark V. WetheringtonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331686
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolves from self-sufficiency to being largely dependent upon cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces, spearheaded by Reconstruction-era New South boosters, invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape in an attempt to create a South with a diversified economy. The first stage in the transformation -- railroad construction and a revival of steamboating -- led to the second stage: sawmilling and turpentining. The harvest of forest products during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area dependent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system within a generation.
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1754
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.
Report
Author: United States. Agricultural Adjustment AgencyPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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