Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization from the antebellum era to the computer age
Title:
Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization from the antebellum era to the computer age
Author:
Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
Publication Information:
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
xiii, 215 p.
Series:
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society
New currents in the history of Southern economy and society.
Abstract:
"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.
