| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 215 words from this article are provided below; about 427 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Ed. by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. xii, 240 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8262-1583-1.)

This volume of essays successfully challenges the simple and simplistic description of the southern economy as backward because it was less industrially developed than the North's economy. Together, the essays reveal a southern economy with "high-ranking positions within the Western world" (p. 5). By expanding the study of regional economic development to include international comparison and context, the authors offer a compelling revision of American economic history. The editors draw on several decades of revisionist scholarship which, they argue, has established that "both southern society and economy now look more complex, articulated and diverse than their classic representations would have once had us believe" (p. ix). This volume of cutting-edge scholarship is part of a series titled New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society, an undertaking of the Southern Industrialization Project, of which the editors, Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, have both been leading members. Delfino and Gillespie have successfully achieved their goal of providing "a multifaceted picture of the transformations that the South's economy and society underwent, one that transcends the traditional framework of historical discourse" (p. 13).

. . .

There are about 427 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.