L.H. Roper's innovative study provides a transatlantic analysis of the origins of American colonial societies through the instructive case of South Carolina. The work provides the clearest examination of the early history of this important colony yet available. In addition, it features exhaustive primary research that sheds new light on how the colony's particular dependence on race-based slavery evolved, demonstrating the volatile tension between the political culture inherited from the "Old World" and local interests in the Indian slave trade. Conceiving Carolina is an important scholarly...

Written from a transatlantic perspective and based largely on primary sources, Conceiving Carolina provides the first systematic treatment of the colonization of South Carolina in over a century. It argues that the political culture that developed in the colony amounted to an extension of the political life in early modern England.

This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.

This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.

The first comparative treatment of settler's trading, pirating, and colonizing activities in the Caribbean