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African American folklore
anti-Monopolism
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Black Ulysses
Business History
Capitalism
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Civil War
Corporate Consolidation
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History of Capitalism
Howard Odum
Ida B. Wells
Illinois Central
Jesse James
Jim Crow
John Henry
Josephus Daniels
Louisville and Nashville
New Orleans Exposition
North Carolina Railroad
People's Party
Populism
Quarantines
Railroad Bill
railroad construction
Railroad Corporations
railroad labor
Railroads
Railroads during Reconstruction
Railroads in Georgia
Railroads in North Carolina
Railroads in the New South
Railroads in the U.S. South
rate discrimination
Reconstruction
Redemption
Rube Burrow
Samuel Spencer
segregation
Southern and Florida Railroad
Southern Railway
standard gauge
The New South
The Octopus
Tom Watson
Train Robbers
train songs
train wreck ballads
Train Wreckers
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Western North Carolina Railroad
Wilmington Coup
Wilmington Riot
Wreck of the Old 97
Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever in Mississippi
Yellow Fever in New Orleans
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- ISBN 9781469652818
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction shattered the plantation economy of the Old South, white southerners turned to the railroad to reconstruct capitalism in the region. Examining the rapid growth, systemization, and consolidation of the southern railroad network, R. Scott Huffard Jr. demonstrates how economic and political elites used the symbolic power of the railroad to proclaim a New South had risen. The railroad was more than just an economic engine of growth; it was a powerful symbol of capitalism's advance.
However, as the railroad spread across the region, it also introduced new dangers and anxieties. White southerners came to fear the railroad would speed an upending of the racial order, epidemics of yellow fever, train wrecks, violent robberies, and domination by corporate monopolies. To complete the reconstruction of capitalism, railroad corporations and their allies had to sever the negative aspects of railroading from capitalism's powers and deny the railroad's transformative powers to black southerners. This study of the New South's experience with the growing railroad network provides valuable insights into the history of capitalism--how it evolves, expands, and overcomes resistance.
However, as the railroad spread across the region, it also introduced new dangers and anxieties. White southerners came to fear the railroad would speed an upending of the racial order, epidemics of yellow fever, train wrecks, violent robberies, and domination by corporate monopolies. To complete the reconstruction of capitalism, railroad corporations and their allies had to sever the negative aspects of railroading from capitalism's powers and deny the railroad's transformative powers to black southerners. This study of the New South's experience with the growing railroad network provides valuable insights into the history of capitalism--how it evolves, expands, and overcomes resistance.
R. Scott Huffard Jr is assistant professor of history at Lees-McRae College.
