Plantation enterprise in colonial South Carolina /

"This scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols - the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry." "With a bold interdisciplinary a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edelson, S. Max (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 17th century.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 18th century.
Rice farmers > South Carolina > History.
Slavery > South Carolina > History.
Landscapes > Social aspects > South Carolina > History.
Human ecology > South Carolina > History.
Human geography > South Carolina > History.
Vie dans les plantations > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Vie dans les plantations > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Riziculteurs > Caroline du Sud > Histoire.
Paysages > Aspect social > Caroline du Sud > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Ecology.
Human ecology.
Human geography.
Landscapes > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Plantation life.
Rice farmers.
Slavery.
Landwirtschaft
Sklaverei
Plantages.
Slavernij.
Vie dans les plantations > États-Unis > Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) > 1500-1800.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) > 1500-1800.
South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
South Carolina > Social life and customs.
South Carolina > Environmental conditions.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Caroline du Sud > Mœurs et coutumes.
Caroline du Sud > Conditions environnementales.
South Carolina.
South Carolina
Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) > Conditions économiques > 1500-1800.
Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) > Conditions sociales > 1500-1800.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on the text
  • Introduction
  • 1. Laying claim to the land
  • 2. Rice culture origins
  • 3. Transforming the plantation landscape
  • 4. City, hinterland, and frontier
  • 5. Marketplace of identity
  • 6. Henry Laurens's empire
  • Conclusion : Into the American South
  • Abbreviations
  • Appendix : Statistical tables
  • Noes
  • Index.

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