| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Canada and the United States

Bess Beatty. Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 247. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

Bess Beatty's monograph is praiseworthy on a number of levels: first as an exploration of the vagaries of industrial succession in nineteenth-century family concerns, second as a detailed examination on the local level of the exact nature of patriarchal relations in a textile community, and third because it provides another viewpoint in the debates over continuity and change in the nineteenth-century South and the distinctiveness of southern industrialization. 1

Primarily the tale of Edwin Michael Holt and the creation of an industrial empire based on textile manufacturing, rooted in the slave-owning south but expanding through the Civil War and Reconstruction, Beatty's book traces the history of the wider Holt family and the Holt mills and analyzes the eruption of their labor force and the subsequent failure of the mills. . . .

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