Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Settling the backcountry : the emergence of the planters
  • Ordering the backcountry
  • Inland civil war
  • Containing the Revolution, 1782-1790
  • Backcountry republicans
  • The politics of land
  • The French Revolution in South Carolina
  • The political unification of South Carolina
  • Evangelical revival and the definition of Christian stewardship
  • Conclusion: The limits of unification
  • Appendix 1. South Carolina parishes, districts, and counties, 1767-1808
  • Appendix 2. Landholdings of people accused of crimes, 1767-1775
  • Index.