| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845–1880. By Bruce W. Eelman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xviii, 313 pp. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3019-8.)

The upcountry has long fascinated scholars of the American South and capitalist transformation. Whether it is, famously, Steven Hahn researching Georgia or Lacy Ford examining South Carolina, historians have discovered entrepreneurs experimenting with markets of commercial exchange far from the traditional centers of power and wealth in the South, namely the lowcountry plantations and seaports. Following in this tradition is Bruce W. Eelman, who charts the lives of upcountry merchants, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and manufacturers—collective members of what he labels the "rising class"—in Spartanburg, South Carolina, during the mid-nineteenth century and through them reveals a persistent spirit of economic modernization.

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