Planters and the Making of a New South: Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900 by Dwight B. Billings

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

Dwight B. Billings

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nonfiction business economics history
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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 industr...

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