Planters and the Making of a New South: Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807896198)

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows the persistent hegemony and support for industrialization among the landed upper class and describes several generations of five powerful North Carolina families who spread plantation paternalism to the mill-village system. Billings compares this with similar cases in Germany and Japan.

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Author: Dwight B. Billings
ISBN-10: 0807896195
ISBN-13: 9780807896198
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2011
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d