Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization from the antebellum era to the computer age / [electronic resource] : edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008. - xiii, 215 p. - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society . - New currents in the history of Southern economy and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Industries--Technological innovations--Southern States.
Industrialization--Southern States.


Electronic books.

HC107.A13 / T34 2008

338.0975