In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. By retaining select features from earlier periods and adding new buildings and landscapes, wealthy sporting enthusiasts created a new type of plantation. In the process, they changed the meaning of the word "plantation," with profound implications for historical memory of slavery and contemporary views of the South. A New Plantation World is the first critical investigation of these "sporting plantations." By examining the process that remade...
In the era between the world wars, wealthy sportsmen and sportswomen created more than seventy large estates in the coastal region of South Carolina. ...
This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil war was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary men. Adopting a micro-historical approach, Lawrence McDonnell works to connect small events in new ways -- he places one company of the secessionist Minute Men in historical context, exploring the political and cultural dynamics of their choices. Every chapter presents little-known characters whose lives and decisions were crucial to the history of southern disunion. McDonnell asks readers to consider the past with fresh eyes, analyzing the...
This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil war was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary...
This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil war was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary men. Adopting a micro-historical approach, Lawrence McDonnell works to connect small events in new ways -- he places one company of the secessionist Minute Men in historical context, exploring the political and cultural dynamics of their choices. Every chapter presents little-known characters whose lives and decisions were crucial to the history of southern disunion. McDonnell asks readers to consider the past with fresh eyes, analyzing the...
This book traces how and why the secession of the South during the American Civil war was accomplished at ground level through the actions of ordinary...
This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the seventeenth century to the brink of their institutional collapse at the eve of the Civil War.
This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the se...
