Bøger af David L. Carlton

In this collection of essays, the authors argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot be explained away as resulting from a distinctive ""premodern"" business climate, since there was little variation between regional business climates during the Antebellum period.

Probing the social repercussions of the industrial development of South Carolina in the decades following Reconstruction, David Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920, tells of the conflict that erupted between the rising middle class of the South's small towns and the rural whites who came to labour in the towns' textile mills.