| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. By Chad Morgan. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xii, 163 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2872-8.)
In this study Chad Morgan adds to the increasing literature concerning the Southern home front during the Civil War. He emphasizes the economic modernization developments war needs caused. Fighting a war against the more industrialized North forced a new manufacturing responsibility on a rather one-dimensional agricultural South. Of the southern states, Morgan chose Georgia as a case study because the circumstances there were best suited for transition or modernization. Some textile manufacturing had been accomplished in Georgia in the decades before the war. Also, as the book's title indicates, slaveholders backed state encouragement of industry.	1
Change and modernization in Confederate Georgia were especially dramatic in Atlanta, Columbus, Augusta, and Macon. All became centers of wartime production: Atlanta of ordnance (it was also an arsenal), Augusta of gunpowder, Columbus of uniforms and shoes, and Macon of ordnance. Atlanta began the transition from a large town to the booming New South city it became. In fact, the war set off an "entrepreneurial bonanza," and throughout Georgia everything from buckles to haversacks was produced (p. 48). The conflict also caused changes in the work force—the author deals ably with the experiences of blacks and women.	. . .

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