Author: William Watson Davis
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: JOHN G. VAN. DEUSEN
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ISBN: 9781033106549
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: John G. van Deusen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266212706
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Excerpt from The Ante-Bellum Southern Commercial Conventions The first four conventions (1837-1839) had for their sole aim the establishment of direct trade with Europe, although one of them (charleston, 1839) mentioned the matter of internal improvements. The next three conventions (1845, 1849, 1851) were concerned wholly with internal improve ments. The Memphis Convention of 1845 wished to bind the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi Valley, to clear the mouth of the Mississippi, and then bind the West to the South. The Memphis Convention of 1849 was called for the sole purpose of furthering the construction of the Pacific Railroad, although a canal or railroad across Mexico or Central America was a measure of temporary interest. The New Orleans Convention of 1851 was interested in railroad construction, both east and west of the Mississippi, and the Isthmian route. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John George Van Deusen
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ISBN: 9780404517663
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Author: John G. Van Deusen
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258146818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Historical Papers Published By The Trinity College Historical Society, Series 16.

Author: John G. Van Deusen
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ISBN: 9780404531669
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Alabama Historical Society
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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Vicki Vaughn Johnson
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Laurence Shore
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403

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Studying the changing strategies used by the nineteenth-century southern leaders to justify their direction of the South's economy and politics, Shore shows how leaders before, during, and after the Civil War attempted to set standards of success in southern society and to clarify the relations between those standards and national prosperity. Shore offers a new perspective on southern leaders' worldview and helps clarify the enduring question of what is new about the "new South." Originally published in 1986. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author: Michael J. Gagnon
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807145084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens. By 1835, local entrepreneurs had built three cotton factories in Athens, started a bank, and created the Georgia Railroad. Although known best as a college town, Athens became an industrial center for Georgia in the antebellum period and maintained its stature as a factory hub even after competing cities supplanted it in the late nineteenth century. Georgia, too, remained the foremost industrial state in the South until the 1890s. Gagnon reveals the political nature of procuring manufacturing technology and building cotton mills in the South, and demonstrates the generational maturing of industrial laboring, managerial, and business classes well before the advent of the New South era. He also shows how a southern industrial society grew out of a culture of social and educational reform, economic improvements, and business interests in banking and railroading. Using Athens as a case study, Gagnon suggests that the connected networks of family, business, and financial relations provided a framework for southern industry to profit during the Civil War and served as a principal guide to prosperity in the immediate postbellum years.