By Douglas Flamming
In Creating the trendy South, Douglas Flamming examines 100 years within the lifetime of the mill and the city of Dalton, Georgia, offering a uniquely perceptive view of Dixie's social and financial transformation.
"Beautifully written, it combines the wealthy specificity of a case learn with largely acceptable man made conclusions.--Technology and Culture
"A distinctive and nuanced research of group improvement. . . . Creating the trendy South is a crucial ebook and may be of curiosity to somebody within the box of work history.--Journal of monetary History
"A wealthy and provocative examine. . . . Its significant contribution to our wisdom of the South is its cautious account of the evolution and cave in of mill culture.--Journal of Southern History
"Ambitious, and every now and then provocative, Creating the fashionable South is a well-researched, hugely readable, and interesting book.--Journal of yank History
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