Northern Business and the Shape of Southern Progress: The Case of Tennessee's "Model City"

Authors

Edward L. Ayers, University of RichmondFollow

DOI

141.166.176.190

Abstract

State governments, understandably eager to entice needed capital to their region, no longer entertained the earlier progressive ideal of an autonomous South. The perennially-tempting vision of rapid economic growth funded by plentiful Northern capital arose in new, distinctly modern, attire.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1980

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 1980, Tennessee Historical Quarterly. This article first appeared in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39:2 (1980), 208-222.

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Recommended Citation

Ayers, Edward L. "Northern Business and the Shape of Southern Progress: The Case of Tennessee's "Model City." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39, no. 2 (June 1980): 208-222.