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Regenerating Dixieis the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention . . . one of its central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history. --Contingent Magazine In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth. --David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute & The History of Science and Technology, Anderson Library, University of Minnesota Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it. --Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire

Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it. --Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth. --David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute & The History of Science and Technology, Anderson Library, University of Minnesota

In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth. --David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute & The History of Science and Technology, Anderson Library, University of Minnesota Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it. --Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire

In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth. --David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute & The History of Science and Technology, Anderson Library, University of Minnesota Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it. --Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire Regenerating Dixieis the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention . . . one of its central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history. --Contingent Magazine

"A timely and important study of electrification in the American South, which highlights race and ownership politics as fundamental to the writing of energy history.-- ""Journal of Southern History"" Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it.""--Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire Casey Cater has written an excellent narrative about the rise of the electricity generation industry in the southeastern United States. . . . Cater's book adds to the larger conversation about energy and power, and energy transitions in the nineteenth- and early twentieth century United States. As a business and social history, Cater's work will appeal to readers seeking to understand why 'ordinary people mattered' in the shaping of southern energy utilities.-- ""Environmental History"" ""Regenerating Dixie provides a peek into overlooked corner of planning history, and offers an interesting take on regional economic development in the process. The book is the kind of detailed, deeply sourced scholarship that helps reveal how the country's critical infrastructure systems remain, as Richard White has suggested, hidden in plain sight."" --Journal of the American Planning Association ""Regenerating Dixie is the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention . . . one of its central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history."" --Contingent Magazine ""A timely and important study of electrification in the American South, which highlights race and ownership politics as fundamental to the writing of energy history."" --Journal of Southern History ""Casey Cater employs a multifaceted approach to paint a comprehensive picture of how electrical energy and the deployment of the southern grid were essential parts of the formation of the Modern South. From racial politics to the influence of the TVA, Cater effectively illustrates that southern electrification was different in character than that of the country at large. I know of no other work like it."" --Dan French, author of When They Hid the Fire ""Casey Cater has written an excellent narrative about the rise of the electricity generation industry in the southeastern United States. . . . Cater's book adds to the larger conversation about energy and power, and energy transitions in the nineteenth- and early twentieth century United States. As a business and social history, Cater's work will appeal to readers seeking to understand why 'ordinary people mattered' in the shaping of southern energy utilities."" --Environmental History ""In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth."" --David Nye Regenerating Dixie provides a peek into overlooked corner of planning history, and offers an interesting take on regional economic development in the process. The book is the kind of detailed, deeply sourced scholarship that helps reveal how the country's critical infrastructure systems remain, as Richard White has suggested, hidden in plain sight.-- ""Journal of the American Planning Association"" Regenerating Dixie is the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention . . . one of its central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history.-- ""Contingent Magazine"" In Regenerating Dixie, Casey Cater fills an important gap in the history of electrification scholarship by focusing on the American South. His work combines business and technical history to show how essential electricity was to Southern urbanization and regional growth.""--David Nye, University of Southern Denmark; and Senior Research Fellow, Charles Babbage Institute & The History of Science and Technology, Anderson Library, University of Minnesota"

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Casey P. Cater is an enrgy historian in Atlanta, Georgia.

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