Product Description: Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other—indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: AMERICA'S HISTORY: VOLUME 1:TO 1877 (SELECTED HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS TO ACCOMPANY) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Probing the social repercussions of the industrial development of South Carolina in the decades following Reconstruction, David L. Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920, tells of the conflict that erupted between the rising middle class of the South's small towns and the rural white who came to labor in the towns' burgeoning textile mills...read more