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The Shadow of a Dream : Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920.
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 cityan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Introduction: The Sociology of Architecture in Colonial Charleston; 1. The Carolina Venture in Economic Context; 2. Mise en Scène; 3. The Economic Rise of the South Carolina Low Country; 4. "Lay dis body down": The Economic Demise of the Low Country; Epilogue; Appendix: Demographic Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Charleston; I-A. Seasonal Mortality in Charleston and Boston During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century; I-B. Recorded Burials, Baptisms, and Births, Parish of St. Philip's Charleston 1720-1750; I-C. White Family Structure in Charleston, Bridgetown, and Bristol.
- I-D. An Estimate of the Crude Death Rate for the White Population of Charleston 1722-1732Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.