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The First FullLength Account of the advent of the cottontextile industry inthe region The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South immediately definedindustrialization in the rural South upon its publication in 1921. Itsinfluence was widely felt by southern intellectuals and shaped theinterpretation of southern industrialization in many ways.Broadus Mitchells idealistic chronicle of the southern textile industryfounders reads as a progressives endorsement of a southern industrialrevolution from above to elevate the South from its economic and culturaldoldrums. Mitchell viewed industrialization as necessary for southern progressand believed that its benefits to the South ultimately reached far beyond itsprofits to mill owners. In a lengthy introduction David L. Carlton furtherexplores the life and economic philosophies of Mitchell giving a sturdyframework to this history and reinforcing it as a valuable assessment of ahistorical moment. «
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