Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, t

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth indu

In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to exp

Covering the late colonial age to World War I and beyond, this collection of essays places the economic history of the American South in an international light