This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, Coclanis's study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effects of various factors--the environment, the market, economic and political ideology, and social institutions--on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
This important new book charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surroun...
Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other--indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States. Yet the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing manufacturing belt of the North.
In their essays collected in The...
Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business en...
Like the rest of British North America, the American South was -born capitalist.- The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other--indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States. Yet the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing manufacturing belt of the North.
In their essays collected in...
Like the rest of British North America, the American South was -born capitalist.- The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business en...
"A volume that investigates an aspect of social and intellectual history as substantial as it is under-researched, Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movements uncovers the role of ideas and ideologies in some of the most important social movements in United States history. Thirteen leading historians and sociologists provide in-depth accounts of individual movements - from political democratization, evangelism, feminism, and abolitionism to the support of animal rights, rights for the elderly, children's rights, and civil rights. In doing so, the contributors evaluate the importance of both ideas...
"A volume that investigates an aspect of social and intellectual history as substantial as it is under-researched, Ideas, Ideologies, and Social Movem...
Duncan Clinch Heyward Carl Julien Peter A. Coclanis
Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves-the twin pillars upon which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil War both began to crumble along with the planter aristocracy they supported. Seed from Madagascar chronicles the linked tragedies of the prominent Heyward family and South Carolina's rice industry while underscoring the integral role African Americans played in the fortunes of the planter class and the precious crop. As much about race as about rice, Duncan Clinch Heyward's account offers keen insights...
Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston battery, there was rice and there were slaves-the twin pillars upon which colonial Car...
