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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2006.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.