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Lowcountry at High Tide : A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina /
Illustrated with historical maps, plats, and photographs and organized chronologically and thematically within chapters, Lowcountry at High Tide offers a unique look at how Charleston has kept--and may continue to keep--the ocean at bay.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Colonial Charlestown
- The federal era and the incorporation of Charleston
- Increased activity and antebellum filling
- War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow : 1860 to 1900
- Early twentieth-century progress
- Between two World Wars
- Modern Charleston emerges : World War II to the 1960s
- Filling activities draw to a close : 1960s to the twenty-first century
- Implications of the past, current issues, and improvement initiatives.