The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South. By Broadus Mitchell, with a new introduction by David L. Carlton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. lviii, 281. $18.95, paper.
本书是米切尔1921年的博士论文，研究1880年至一战期间美国东南部棉纺业的爆炸式增长，是该地区主导产业的首次学术评估，对经济史学者有重要参考价值。
Written as his doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins University and published as a book in 1921, Mitchell's study was a highly influential study of the explosive growth of cotton manufacturing in the southeastern United States from 1880 to World War I. The first scholarly assessment of what would become the leading industry of the region and set within the historical context of that region, Mitchell's book was, as Carlton says, “[r]ooted in the militant modernizing ethos of the Progressive era reform milieu” (p. x).