Technology, innovation, and Southern industrialization

By Michele Gillespie, Susanna Delfino

Subjects: Technological innovations, united states, Technological innovations, Industries, Industrialization, Southern states, economic conditions

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.