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Planters and the Making of a "New South"

Planters and the Making of a "New South" Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900

Hardback (30 Jan 1979)

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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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Book information

ISBN: 9780807813157
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 330.975604
Number of pages: 284
Weight: -1g
Height: 220mm
Width: 140mm