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Building Charleston : town and society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world /
In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of one of earl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of one of early America's great cities, revealing its importance to the evolution of both South Carolina and the British Atlantic world during the eighteenth century. --from publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813928692 0813928699 1280490225 9781280490224 9786613585455 6613585459 |