Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9780801873942
Untertitel:
Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
Angela Lakwete
Herausgeber:
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Auflage:
New
Anzahl Seiten:
248
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.01.2004
ISBN:
978-0-8018-7394-2

Informationen zum Autor Angela Lakwete is an associate professor of history at Auburn University. Klappentext Angela Lakwete revisits the myths evoked by Eli Whitney's cottin gin and discovers that gins existe for centuries before his 1794 invention. Her compelling study explores this tool as an artifact of global history and a barometer of southern industrial development. Zusammenfassung Far from being a record of southern failure! Lakwete concludes! the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated! industrialized! and modernized.

Autorentext
Angela Lakwete is an associate professor of history at Auburn University.

Klappentext
Angela Lakwete revisits the myths evoked by Eli Whitney's cottin gin and discovers that gins existe for centuries before his 1794 invention. Her compelling study explores this tool as an artifact of global history and a barometer of southern industrial development.

Zusammenfassung
Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.


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