The Conquest of Labor - Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization (Paperback)

The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns. Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his ""Yankee"" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Southern Biography Series
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	December 2014
Authors:	Curtis J. Evans
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	370
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-5681-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of other lands Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history Promotions
LSN:	0-8071-5681-7
Barcode:	9780807156810

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