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SC 10.3-Books 8/9/04 4:02 PM Page 106 skills, from engineers to manual workers. Southern firms were thus dependent on outside sources of technology and capital, restricting their scope for innovation and growth. The book has a few drawbacks that should be noted. It is not a unified histor- ical synthesis, but a collection of essays, either previously published or written for earlier occasions. Perhaps this feature is an advantage for those dipping their toes into economic history for the first time, but it does mean that many important topics are not covered here. A couple of these may be more than incidental. There is little here about politics and even less about race. It would be quite a challenge to write a “non cultural” history of politics and race in the South, and yet these areas of life have had profound effects on the regional economy down to the present day. These cultural linkages are all the more vital in understanding the transition from the Jim Crow era to the modern South, a task that presumably will be part of the “truly comprehensive interpretation of southern economic life” that the authors hope some day to undertake. My advice to
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Aug 24, 2004
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