Dwight B Billings: 1 book
Planters and the Making of a "New South"
Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
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...
