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03718aam a2200457 i 4500 001 FCF414C8323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200805s2021 gauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020034685 020 $a 0820357529 020 $a 9780820357522 020 $a 0820357502 020 $a 9780820357508 035 $a (OCoLC)1183398741 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a HC107.A13 $b W44 2021 100 1 $a Wheeler, Kenneth H., $e author. 245 10 $a Modern cronies : $b Southern industrialism from gold rush to convict labor, 1829-1894 / $c Kenneth H. Wheeler. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 187 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Ararat -- A Railroad and Rowland Springs -- Iron -- The Education of Joseph E. Brown -- The Republic of Georgia -- Destruction -- Anew. 520 $a "This book traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the Southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as self-contained, in which aside from Cherokee Removal (admittedly no small thing) and a supply of miners to California in 1849, the gold rush had no other effects. In fact, the Southern gold rush was a significant force. The pressure brought by the gold rush for Cherokee Removal opened the path of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, which created both Atlanta and Chattanooga. Iron makers, attracted by the gold rush, built the most elaborate iron-making operations in the Deep South near this railroad, in Georgia's Etowah Valley; some of these iron makers became the industrial talent in the fledgling post-bellum city of Birmingham, Alabama. This book explicates the networks of associations and interconnections across these varied industries in a way that newly interprets the development of the southeastern United States. The book also reconsiders the meaning of Joseph E. Brown, Georgia's influential Civil War governor, political heavyweight, and wealthy industrialist. Brown was nurtured in the Etowah Valley by people who celebrated mining, industrialization, banking, land speculation, and railroading as a pathway to a prosperous future. The book explains Brown's familial, religious, and social ties to these people, clarifies the origins of Brown's interest in convict labor, explains how he used his knowledge acquired in the gold rush to enrich himself as he marketed the Canton Copper Mine, and how after the Civil War Brown, aided by his sons, dominated and modeled an enriching crony capitalism with far-reaching implications"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Industrialization $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Industrialists $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Gold mines and mining $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Southern States $x Economic conditions $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Gold mines and mining. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944469 650 7 $a Industrialists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00971815 650 7 $a Industrialization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00971825 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780820357515 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015122.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FCF414C8323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search