{"product_id":"globalization-and-the-american-south-paperback","title":"Globalization and the American South - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlfred Eckes\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eAndy Deroche\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eDavid Reimers\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1955 the Fortune magazine list of America's largest corporations included just 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 the number had grown to 123. In fact, the South attracted over half of the foreign businesses drawn to the United States in the 1990s. The eight original essays collected here consider this stunning dynamism in ways that help us see anew the region's place in that ever-accelerating, transnational flow of people, capital, and technology known collectively as \"globalization.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between local and global perspectives, the essays discuss how once faraway places like Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent are now having an impact on the South. One essay, for example, looks at a range of issues behind the explosive growth of North Carolina's Latino population, which grew by almost 400 percent during the 1990s-miles ahead of the national growth percentage of 61. In another essay we learn why BMW workers in Germany, frustrated with the migration of jobs to South Carolina, refer to the American South as \"our Mexico.\" Showing that global forces are often on both sides of the matchup--reshaping the South but also adapting to and exploiting its peculiarities--many of the essays make the point that, although the new ethnic food section at the local Winn-Dixie is one manifestation of globalization, so is the wide-ranging export of such originally southern phenomena as NASCAR and Kentucky Fried Chicken. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf a single message emerges from the book, it is this: Beware of tidy accounts of worldwide integration. On one hand, globalization can play to southern shortcomings (think of the region's repute as a source of cheap labor); on the other, the influx of new peoples, customs, and ideas is poised to alter forever the South's historic black-white racial divide.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames C. Cobb (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JAMES C. COBB is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His numerous publications include \u003ci\u003eRedefining Southern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (both Georgia), \u003ci\u003eAway Down South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Stueck (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WILLIAM STUECK, Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Georgia, is an authority on U.S. diplomatic history, particularly American-Asian relations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9.18 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337662492946,"sku":"9780820326481","price":59.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/cU9DWllTU0xZRGhYNWtVNHhiRHJIdz09.webp?v=1780465949","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/globalization-and-the-american-south-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}