Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837-1900
- ISBN-10
- 0807123730
- ISBN-13
- 9780807123737
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Bess Beatty
Description
"Beatty's relatively narrow subject and geographic approach, combined with an unusually comprehensive timespan, enable her to effectively analyze social and industrial change - particularly the development of the textile industry in the southern Piedmont - through six decades."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 2000-01-01
- 292 pages
- Paperback
- LSU Press
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