| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900. By Bess Beatty. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xxii, 247 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-2373-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8071-2449-4.)

Bess Beatty's Alamance is a welcome addition to the historiography of industrialization in the South. Beatty tells the story of the Edwin M. Holt family of Alamance County, North Carolina, and its rise as leaders in the building of the North Carolina textile industry. Edwin Holt, a fourth-generation North Carolinian from a prominent planter family, saw his future, not on the plantation, but in textile manufacturing. Dedicated to manufacturing yarn and cloth, Holt built his first mill on the family's plantation in 1837 and from then on put family profit and success before all else in order to realize his dream of a family industrial dynasty. According to Beatty, Holt's drive to establish a textile manufacturing empire created a modern industrial family that left behind its preindustrial and agrarian ways. Interweaving economic and familial relations, the Holts were becoming modern and "proto-bourgeois," united by class interests with other prominent families across the region and state as well as in the North. These new relationships, driven by business, supplanted traditional local and kinship relationships. . . .

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