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Author: Shepherd W. McKinley
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.456kg
ISBN: 9780813049243
ISBN 10: 0813049245
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 18 March 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina low country. Business History Review
An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina low country. -- Business History Review
"""A solid contribution.""--Journal of American History ""An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina lowcountry.""--Business History Review ""Places the rise of these industries in the context of the struggle for southern economic leadership in the years following the Civil War. . . . A well-written, engaging history.""--Journal of Economic History ""McKinley posits that the fertilizer industry emancipated former planter elites from the slave-based antebellum economy. . . . Ultimately, manufactured fertilizer contributed to fundamental changes in southern agriculture.""--American Historical Review ""A significant contribution to the story of industrialization in the New South.""--Choice ""Illustrates how South Carolina's abundant phosphate deposits bred vibrant mining and fertilizer industries in Charleston and adjacent environs that helped reshape land, labor, and economy in the heartland of the former Confederacy.""--Journal of Southern History ""A finely layered and important study that fills in gaps in the industrial history of the New South and especially low-country South Carolina.""--Sidney Bland, author of Preserving Charleston's Past, Shaping Its Future: The Life and Times of Susan Pringle Frost ""Skillfully blurs the old, comfortable line between Old and New South economies and paints a nuanced picture of the new labor relations in the post-slavery era.""--Charles Holden, author of In the Great Maelstrom"
Author Information
Shepherd McKinley Education: Ph.D. University of Delaware (Hagley Graduate Program) ,M.A. UNC Charlotte, USA, B.A. Duke University, USA Dr. McKinley is beginning research on his grandfather’s career as a U.S. banker during the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic of the 1920s-1930s. Eventually, Dr. McKinley would like to continue his work on the South Carolina phosphate and fertilizer industries into the 20th century.
