Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790--1860
by
Tom Downey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a pathbreaking book, well grounded in the appropriate documentary record. Downey makes especially good use of the reports of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company and of other corporations, which are so tedious to read, to offer an exciting and fresh perspective on an old problem...