Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South

Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in contrast to older stereotypes, southerners did not shun industrial development when profits were possible. Even in the Appalachian South, where the rugged terrain presented particular challenges, southern ent

Author: Randal L. Hall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/01/2012
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.32w x 1.29d
ISBN: 9780813136240

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2012

About the Author

Randal L. Hall is managing editor of the Journal of Southern History and adjunct associate professor of history at Rice University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio and William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South. He is also the coeditor of Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours and Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America.

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