An Anxious Pursuit : Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 /

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Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chaplin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in the...

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Main Author: Chaplin, Joyce E.
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vernieuwing.
Agrarische hervormingen.
Slavery.
Plantation life.
Agriculture.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Agriculture > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Agriculture > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Southern States > History > 1775-1865.
Southern States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Perspectives on the Development of a Plantation Region
  • 1. Considering Modernity. Ch. 2. The Fate of Progress in the Early Lower South. Ch. 3. Being Exotic. Ch. 4. The Local Work Ethic. Ch. 5. Projects and Power
  • 2. Realizing Modernity. Ch. 6. Crisis and Response: Indigo and Cotton. Ch. 7. Crisis and Response: Tidal Rice Cultivation. Ch. 8. Creating a Cotton South. Ch. 9. Factories and Fields
  • Epilogue: Slavery, Progress, and the "Federo-national" Union.

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