A history of the South's antebellum industrial base, its devastation in war, and its postbellum restoration. A Military Book Club Selection
Harold S. Wilson is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University. He is the author of McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers and of articles published in African American Studies, The Historian, the Journal of Confederate History, and Alabama Review. Learn more about the author at http://members.cox.net/haroldwilson/.