| The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization Contributor(s): Evans, Curtis J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807156817 ISBN-13: 9780807156810 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Southern Biography |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.19 lbs) 370 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Alabama |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns. Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his Yankee town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North. |