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Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South - A Reevaluation (Hardcover)
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Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South - A Reevaluation (Hardcover)
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about
the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial
development in the region to explain why the Confederacy succumbed
to the Union. Even after the cliometric revolution of the 1970s,
when historians first began applying statistical analysis to
reexamine antebellum manufacturing output, the pervasive belief in
the region's backward-ness prompted many scholars to view slavery,
not industry, as the economic engine of the South. In Industrial
Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South,
historian Michael S. Frawley engages a wide variety of sources-
including United States census data, which many historians have
underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar South- to
show how industrial development in the region has been
systematically minimized by scholars. In doing so, Frawley
reconsiders factors related to industrial production in the prewar
South, such as the availability of natural resources,
transportation, markets, labor, and capital. He contends that the
Gulf South was far more industrialized and modern than suggested by
census records, economic historians like Fred Bateman and Thomas
Weiss, and contemporary travel writers such as Frederick Law
Olmsted. Frawley situates the prewar South firmly in a varied and
widespread industrial context, contesting the assumption that
slavery inhibited industry in the region and that this lack of
economic diversity ultimately prevented the Confederacy from waging
a successful war. Though southern manufacturing firms could not
match the output of northern states, Industrial Development and
Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South proves that such
entities had established themselves as vital forces in the southern
economy on the eve of the Civil War.
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