Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South IndustryA volume in the series Economy and Society in the Modern South |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Prologue The First American Carpet Industry | 9 |
Crisis of the Old Order | 56 |
Tufted Textiles Take the Floor | 81 |
Managing Growth | 232 |
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